"The poll shows that women — particularly those who are older or are politically independent — are driving the late shift toward Harris.”

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The registered Democrat said she identifies as pro-life but doesn’t think anyone should make that choice for somebody else.

That’s … pro-choice.

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That’s the power of propaganda. As long as she is pro-choice in her voting, I don’t care what she thinks it’s called internally. Like the people who demonize Obamacare but support its individual policies. They usually vote against it though.

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Which is why allowing the right to use the label “pro-life” was a cardinal sin of the Democrats’ strategy

I’m literally pro-life: I support saving lives whenever and wherever it’s reasonable to do so

But I’m pro-choice, because I don’t think I should be the one to decide for everyone else which situation is reasonable and which isn’t. Also, women deserve basic fucking rights and bodily autonomy is, like, the number one most fundamental right

We really ought to change the nature of the conversation: it’s not “pro-life”. It’s pro-enslavement, pro-religious-tyranny, and pro-absolutism

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I mean, do the democrats have any power to stop them from using that label? Like, sure, they could make a point of always calling them something else, but if they always use that term to describe themselves, then it will end up in the public consciousness anyway even if only from people asking what they mean by it.

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But… But that allows others to handle things differently than you might based on the situation…

Surely politicians should be dictating who can do what with their bodies?

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I hope all those farmers are paying attention to who won them the right to repair their tractors.

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Narrator: “They did not.”

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too busy voting their immigrant and migrant farm workers out of the country.

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Gotta do what they can to save their pets

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The whole article is worth a read, I picked up on this in particular:

Harris holds on to the support of nearly all Democrats, with 97% saying they will support her and 0% saying they will support Trump.
But she also gets 5% of Republicans who say they will vote for her over Trump. Trump holds 89% of Republicans.

All you folks who are wondering why Harris was so eager to work with the Cheneys and other Republicans and move further to the center, this is why. That 5% probably makes up a good portion of the difference between this poll and prior polls (along with the 6% of Republicans there who woudl vote for neither.) Trump is trying to cast Harris as a far left, communist, radical choice. But when she is on stage with Liz Cheney, it shows everyone how absurd that characterization is.

If she does in fact win Iowa, and other states that weren’t considered toss-ups, it will be directly due to that outreach across the aisle.

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Saying this again for those on the back that may not be listening.

All you folks who are wondering why Harris was so eager to work with the Cheneys and other Republicans and move further to the center, this is why. That 5% probably makes up a good portion of the difference between this poll and prior polls

Astutely put!

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All you folks who are wondering why Harris was so eager to work with the Cheneys and other Republicans and move further to the center, this is why. That 5% probably makes up a good portion of the difference between this poll and prior polls (along with the 6% of Republicans there who woudl vote for neither.)

This is exactly why Harris (and Biden before her) was careful to emphasize MAGA Republicans as threats to American democracy and not the Republican party as a whole, while the GOP desperately tried to paint that as an assault on every Republican. There is a nonzero number of Republican voters who can be persuaded to put ideology over party- the question is, is that number high enough to swing the election? So far, the answer looks like “yes”.

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I am literally going to cry like a fucking baby if she wins IOWA of all places.

#VOTE!!!

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Doesn’t matter; vote.

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if anything this matters more to democratic voters in Iowa. I don’t believe it would happen but you never know, vote even in red states.

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