Trump Polling Reflects State-Wide Votes on Abortion Rights

Not that we can predict all future events, some patterns are attractive to read about. Before Roe was overturned, anti abortionists were rubbing their hands in anticipation of a series of statewide votes across the country. They were full of themselves bragging that their message of "murdering babies" was so clever voters in nearly all states would ban abortions. We know the opposite occurred. Now Trump's kiss of death will, it is expected, defeat the conservatives in Canada. Conservatives in Canada were polling ahead until Trump took office in the U.S.

That said, there is a difference between the state abortion referendums and Trump's political situation. When the time comes to vote, voters need to have an alternative. In the case of abortion, most every woman who is pregnant knows about abortion. Nearly all know how to get an abortion or, in the case of medical abortions, where or how to buy the pills.

In elections for candidates, there needs to be an alternative the voter knows about and it comfortable with. Trump has developed a clever way to handle this. He dominates every news cycle. Since he is the only one talking the impression is he is the only viable person on the scene. We liberals can complain the news media should not give Trump so much of the news time. Those in the news business seem to think there is no alternative but to yield. 

All that said, we all know history is full of events that surprised everyone. What was considered to be impossible becomes the inevitable. Abortion rights have become inevitable when once they were thought to be impossible.