If you’ve slammed your head against a wall at least once for each pro-Hillary PUMA who’s abandoning Obama, this Slate report may offer a bit of salve: There are real-life “pro-life” Democratic women in swing states — including former Bush voters — who, without changing their stance on abortion, have decided to back Barack. We’ll never know if it’s a 1-to-1 wash, but still.
“Like others who told me they had based their vote on the single issue of abortion the last two times around, [Marlene] Turnbach [of Pennsylvania] says her ’08 calculus takes other matters — like the economy, the economy and the economy — into account,” writes Melinda Henneberger.
Read the whole article for the rest. Not all the news therein is good — and, in myriad ways, reproductive rights are an economic issue, so we don’t want them swept entirely off the table with the rest of the “family values” stuff — but it does play nicely with another current Slate piece: “Enough Already With Political Categories Like ‘White Women.'”
