When Democrats think back about what they could have, indeed should have, done differently with regard to the 2022 midterm elections, what lessons will they draw? My hunch: the abortion issue raised by Dobbs was much less potent than the skyrocketing cost of living.
The percentage of voters who have any realistic anticipation of a personal need for an abortion is less than 25%. The percentage of voters who will buy newly expensive groceries and gasoline every week is nearly 100%.
Thus, availability of abortion is important to some people, the zooming cost of living is important to nearly everyone - young or old, male or female, especially those living paycheck to paycheck - and they are reminded of it multiple times a week.
If Democrats can get beyond the basics, it may occur to the less ideologically driven among them that Soros-backed “bail reform” DAs and their soft-on-crime policies were millstones Dems didn’t need to have tied to their party. Every time an accused violent criminal - free while awaiting trial - is apprehended for a second violent crime, it reminds people their Democrat city prosecutor sympathizes with criminals, not with victims and the law-abiding.
