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More than 20 Ohio counties rejected Issue 1 on Tuesday and most of them were suburban and exurban counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

For years abortion has been thought of as a bitterly partisan issue, but the Ohio vote is the latest example of how the issue seems to defy the partisan 50/50, red/blue lens that defines most everything in American politics in 2023. In state after state, initiative after initiative, voters seem to be coming down on the side of abortion rights — and the data suggest one big driver of those outcomes might be suburban Republicans.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago

Now if only they'd stop voting for people against their own interests because of scare tactics, peer pressure, and single issue voting.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

But that single issue was abortion for many of them. Damn, they are mindless.

Conservatives are highly motivated to harm others. It's only when they accidentally harm themselves that they relent just long enough to make a correction. When they figure out how to allow abortions only for conservatives, these voters will resume their harmful positions on the topic.

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