Our most recent book is titled Divided We Stand: The 2020 Elections and American Politics. Among other things, it discusses state and congressional elections.
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech at The Hill:
Voters in 10 states will decide this November whether to adopt constitutional amendments that could shape the future of abortion access in their states.
Most of the measures seek to protect abortion access until fetal viability, or the point at which a fetus could survive outside of the uterus, which typically comes around 24 weeks into pregnancy.
Adam Edelman and Bridget Bowman at NBC:
Constitutional amendments to expand or protect abortion access will be put in the hands of voters this fall in 10 states, including the presidential battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada and the Senate battlegrounds of Montana and Florida.
Polls show that the ballot measures are broadly popular in many of the states, findings that are in line with the success similar initiatives have had in other areas of the county following the backlash to the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
But the surveys also reveal a noticeable gap in support between the pro-abortion-rights amendments and the Democratic presidential and Senate candidates who are campaigning on a pro-abortion-rights platform.
With the future of abortion access appearing directly on the ballot, some voters — particularly Republicans and independents — have effectively divorced the issue from the candidates in the other races they will decide on.
