Amy Walter:
Proper.
We’re actually — it is actually unclear what the saliency of this concern goes to be. And even some Democrats are warning that, whereas it appears on paper like one thing like a whole overturning of Roe v. Wade would profit Democrats, in that majorities of Individuals say do not overturn Roe v. Wade, that it’d energize a Democratic base, that it will not be as kind of entrance and middle and persons are assuming.
And I take a look at a spot like Texas, the place now we have been speaking about this concern. They’ve been listening to about this concern within the state of Texas for fairly a while. A brand new ballot got here out, I feel it was final week. The highest concern in state is the border; 33 p.c of voters say, that’s our high concern. Solely 9 p.c picked abortion.
And even amongst Democrats, simply 15 p.c picked abortion as their most vital concern that they suppose ought to be addressed in Texas. For Republicans, virtually two-thirds mentioned the border. So, even on a difficulty the place, once more, it hasn’t been determined, as Tam mentioned, and nonetheless making its method by the courts, however it has been mentioned rather a lot, I feel that the larger query is, does it get utterly overturned, the place it’s fairly clear, black and white, here is what occurred?
Or is it like, this Texas case, the place there are kind of caveats and it’s far more nuanced? And that’s additionally the place the query on how does this minimize politically turns into extra difficult, as a result of, whereas very — I feel it’s like 19 p.c or so of Individuals imagine in banning abortion completely, nearly all of people are someplace form of within the center, not maintain it — not don’t have any restrictions on abortion, but additionally do not limit it utterly.
So that could be a very difficult floor to attempt to determine.
