"Women are not without electoral or political power": Samuel Alito's words come back to haunt Trump

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"Women are not without electoral or political power": Samuel Alito's words come back to haunt Trump
There may be a surge of women voters for Kamala Harris in 2024 — and Trump has the Supreme Court to blame for it

By Heather Digby Parton
Columnist
Published November 4, 2024 9:00AM (EST)


(Salon) Tomorrow is Election Day, the last day of voting in this tumultuous 2024 campaign. What a long, strange trip it's been. Just a year ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was challenging former president Trump for the GOP nomination by saying the word "woke" at least a hundred times a day while former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley competed for what's left of the "normie" Republican vote. A clown car full of grifters and kooks, meanwhile, used the primaries as an opportunity to suck up to Trump, whom everyone knew would inevitably be the nominee. After all, he'd been running non-stop since 2015.

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But something unexpected happened this past weekend that may have called those assumptions into question. The Des Moines Register poll, considered one of the best in all of politics due to pollster J. Ann Selzer's excellent track record, dropped its final poll of the cycle and it landed like a nuclear bomb. Iowa is a solid red state and the previous poll had Trump winning the state handily as expected. Now the numbers showed Harris beating Trump 47 - 44. Boom.

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First, it's pretty clear that reproductive rights are driving this race for a whole lot of people. Iowa, in particular, is now living under a draconian six-week abortion ban that was upheld by its far-right Supreme Court last summer. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his notorious opinion that "women are not without electoral or political power." It appears we may be about to find out the truth of that.

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This Iowa poll may be an outlier and all the chatter about this remarkable result will end up being nothing more than election year lore. Most analysts still seem to think that it's nearly impossible to believe that Harris will actually win Iowa. But this poll is one of the very few that caught the hidden angry non-college-educated Trump vote in 2016 and 2020. There is every reason to believe that it may be catching the hidden pissed-off college-educated and independent women Harris vote in 2024. Nothing would be more satisfying than for this voting block to be the one to spell the end of Donald Trump's political career. .............................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/04/women-are-not-without-electoral-or-political-power-samuel-alitos-words-come-back-to-haunt/

[Lovie777]

1. And obviously the women in his life believe that?..............................

[Lonestarblue]

2. Next women need to tackle red state legislators who would rather see women die than allow them reproductive freedom.

Republicans have practiced extreme gerrymandering for decades to keep themselves in power. Get rid of their gerrymandering and everyone’s voice can be heard instead of just those of right-wing extremists.

[BWdem4life]

3. Voting bloc. Not block. Sheesh, Salon. nt