Late Wednesday morning, two of the heaviest hitters in the pro-choice movement released some post-election polling data to prove that their politics were still winning. Only 19 percent of voters agreed that "having an abortion is morally wrong and should be illegal." In Colorado, the state where the punditocracy agreed that a "war on women" message had failed the Democrats, abortion and "access to health care like cancer screenings and birth control" were more winning issues than even Social Security and Medicare. Depending on how the question was framed.
What got Washington's attention was not the numbers, but the spin. "What we saw this year was many anti-choice Republicans realizing this and running away from—and in many cases, flat out lying about—their own record when it came to both choice and access to birth control," said Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, in a statement accompanying the polls. "Voters are not stupid."
