04-02-2024, 11:09 AM
(04-02-2024, 08:37 AM)pally Wrote: Florida's Supreme Court okayed the legislature's 6-week abortion ban with few exceptions. But at the same approved the addition of a Constitutional amendment on reproductive rights including abortion.
Plus there is a marijuana legalization initiative already approved for the November ballot.
This is not good news for the Republicans...they have lost every election when abortion has been on the ballot. It may not put Florida into the Democratic column at the Presidential level but it takes aim at disliked Sen Rick Scott's re-election hopes. Plus it means that Republicans will have to spend money, that they don't have, in a state they thought was safe
I can see your logic, but abortion was literally on the ballot in those states. Is there a ballot measure or the like in the next election in Florida of that type? If you mean Florida has a chance of flipping blue for POTUS I think you're exceedingly optimistic. Trump will win Florida comfortably, probably in the realm of five to six points. You are correct about one thing, these types of abortion restrictions are a millstone around the GOP's neck. That being the case it would appear that their desire to restrict abortion comes from an actual ideological place, seeing as it hurts them in elections.
