Overturning Roe v Wade would be a game changer in state legislative races
Originally posted on Facebook In all the punditry’s hand-wringing about the Democratic chances in the 2022 election, I rarely see any reference to the impact of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. After today, I think that outcome is likely. And I also think the impact on our elections–especially state legislative elections–will be profound. All of us who do advocacy on state legislative elections know how hard it is to get people–and lately newspapers, too–to pay attention to them. We know how they don’t connect the party identification of incumbent legislators to control over the legislature and control over the legislature to policy decisions. And so Republicans incumbents in SEPA and elsewhere in the state, and their equivalents elsewhere, skate by as voters turned off by the increasingly Trumpified Republicans Party push the button for familiar names of incumbents. If Roe is gone, voting for any Republican legislator in PA,… Continue reading