The States Choose Death - The American Conservative

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Abortion, and all its sundry offshoots, will retain protected status in the United States.
49% : Five key ballot proposals on abortion were decided Tuesday night.
46% : Proposal 3, as previously reported, goes beyond enshrining a right to abortion in the state constitution, though it certainly does that.
44% : But for many of the winning Republicans on Tuesday, opposition to abortion was not the deciding factor.
42% : Meanwhile, the libertarian tendency of the working class voter led him to prefer fewer restrictions on abortion, purely for the sake of keeping the government out of as much of his personal life as possible -- the state is for roads, healthcare, jobs, not morality.
41% : As commentator Aaron Renn pointed out in his newsletter on Wednesday, the majority of the voting public seems to want abortion to be legal.
41% : It used to be that you could not run in a red state without being loudly opposed to abortion, because they were so reliably pro-life.
35% : Even more telling were the results in Kentucky, which spans both the Rust Belt and the Bible Belt, and where the measure to restrict abortion failed by 6 percentage points.
25% : California, Vermont, Montana, Kentucky, and Michigan all weighed in favor of fewer limits on abortion, with even red Kentucky knocking down a proposal to specify that the state constitution does not protect a right to abortion.

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