Overturning Roe Very Unpopular in Battleground States, Giving Democrats Opportunity With Key Voters

By MoveOn. Tuesday, July 5 2022

 Extra voters establish as pro-abortion rights than as Democrats, making abortion an vital concern for selecting up swing voters

Washington, D.C. – Right this moment, MoveOn Political Motion launched new polling from battleground states exhibiting that the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade may be very unpopular and provides Democrats a chance with key voters.

The survey was fielded earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court docket launched its determination in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group, making it extra probably the information has shifted within the aftermath to additional enhance the urgency with which voters view abortion rights and their willingness to have interaction on the problem.

“If we need to restore abortion rights and stop Republicans from passing a nationwide abortion ban, we have to struggle to carry the Home and add two Democratic senators who will prioritize abortion rights over the filibuster,” stated MoveOn Political Motion Govt Director Rahna Epting. “Democrats talking out for abortion rights doesn’t inspire solely base voters—it’s an especially vital concern for swing voters, as properly.”

“The citizens in a number of battlegrounds—like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—are way more supportive of abortion than typical political knowledge thinks they’re,” stated Lake Analysis Companions President Celinda Lake. “Extra voters in these states establish as pro-abortion rights than as Democrats, making abortion a key concern for selecting up help from swing voters.” 

Different findings embrace: 

• The Supreme Court docket’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade runs counter to public sentiment within the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
• Democrats and pro-abortion rights voters are very motivated to prove in November in help of candidates who will defend individuals’s proper to an abortion. Moreover, Democrats and pro-abortion rights voters are rather more energized to vote in response to the choice to overturn Roe and a attainable abortion ban of their state than are Republicans or voters who oppose abortion in all or most circumstances. 
• Whereas it’s true that there are lots of points competing for voters’ consideration presently, not the least of that are gasoline costs and inflation, polling reveals that voters are prepared to carry lawmakers accountable in November for guaranteeing or proscribing entry to abortion.

MoveOn commissioned Lake Analysis Companions to design and administer an internet survey of 300 probably 2022 voters in every of 4 battleground states—Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—in addition to 200 Democratic surge voters throughout the 4 states. The survey fielded June 6-14, 2022. The margin of error for every state is +/-5.7%.

Full polling memo may be discovered right here.

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