Democrats Turn Against Religious Freedom Laws. Voters Don't Agree With Them.
Polling on religious freedom laws suggests that Democrats are playing a long game.
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Last night, in the deluge of e-mails that mark the end of a fundraising quarter, donors to the Democratic Governors Association got a pitch for some emergency money.
Indiana's Republican governor, Mike Pence, won a narrow election in 2012, with just 49.5 percent of the vote, and until this week Democrats had not talked about defeating him beyond a sense that it would be preferable to beat every Republican up in 2016. Now, with entertainers making fun of Pence and Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson joining him in panic about the backlash over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Democrats are settling in as the party that opposes religious liberty laws.