Democrats Run on Abortion, Even for Offices With Little Say on the Issue

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Abortion, Mr. Mason said, comes up in his discussions with voters as much as snow plowing, public safety and housing.
45% : Now Democrats are doing the same on abortion in left-leaning cities, hoping to win over independent voters and some moderate Republicans.
44% : At a recent event, he featured an obstetrician who now commutes to a state where abortion is legal to treat patients and a local woman who traveled to Colorado to terminate a nonviable pregnancy.
43% : Some of their most important questions are, what do you stand for fundamentally?"Mr. Genrich declined repeated opportunities to explain what, precisely, the mayor of Green Bay could do about abortion in his city.
43% : "I'm running for mayor, I'm not debating abortion," Mr. Weininger said.
43% : While abortion became illegal in Missouri after the Supreme Court's decision, Ms. Velázquez said many in St. Louis supported abortion rights.
41% : So I expect that people will want to know where I stand on this issue, even if it isn't a local issue typically."Her main opponent, Suzanne Geist, a Republican state senator who has sponsored bills to restrict or ban abortion in Nebraska, said her actions in the State Capitol should have little bearing on how she would run the state's capital city.
40% : Mr. Johnson is now broadcasting ads with a clip of Mr. Vallas's statement that he opposed abortion; Mr. Vallas has responded with advertising declaring that he supports abortion rights.
38% : Talking about abortion, Ms. Geist said, is "a way of avoiding what the present issues are and trying to get the public wrapped around something that really has nothing to do with the mayor's office or the mayor's race."
37% : "A lot of people I've talked to say, 'Henry, abortion, really?'"
36% : For decades, local Republican candidates ran on issues like abortion, immigration and national security, putting them in simple terms: "A noun, a verb and 9/11," Mr. Biden once said in describing the phenomenon.
33% : He said that he did not remember how he had voted in the November abortion referendum, and that too much fuss was being made over abortion being banned in Racine when it was available across the state line in Illinois, roughly 25 miles south of the city.
32% : In Chicago, Paul Vallas, the former Chicago Public Schools chief executive who is running for mayor, is being attacked by his more liberal opponent, Brandon Johnson, for a 2009 television interview in which Mr. Vallas said, "Fundamentally, I oppose abortion."

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