Show-Me Contradictions, GOP Control & National Abortion Ban

From our vantage . . .

Voters are often hypocritical and the secret ballot gives us a more clear vantage into double talk from THROUGHOUT this red state.

However . . .

Let's not forget that 30 MILLION BUCKS worth of campaign financing probably helped as well. 

But most importantly . . . 

With the White House, Senate & Congress now under Republican control moving forward: A national abortion ban isn't out of the question even if it threatens to mobilize opposition. 

 Meanwhile, here's a more academic perspective . . . 

Jamille Fields Allsbrook, an assistant professor of law at Saint Louis University, offered similar explanations for the results in Missouri. She says it’s possible that voters didn’t believe that Trump posed a threat to abortion access. “Donald Trump, famously back in 2016 …  said that he would appoint justices on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe, and that’s exactly what happened,” Fields Allsbrook says. “But for whatever reason, voters did not feel that he was ideologically really opposed to abortion. And some of that has to do with the way he’s presented himself now.”

Fields Allsbrook also says that some voters may think that, because they had the ability in their state to protect abortion access through the ballot initiative, abortion rights would be protected. (Any national restrictions on abortion would supersede state constitutional protections.)

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Why Abortion Rights Won in Three States That Voted for Trump

Experts say the results demonstrate a "cognitive dissonance" on how people feel about abortion and the candidates they choose to elect.