Democrats lean on abortion to flip the House -- but there's a catch

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Still, Democrats believe focusing on abortion helped change the 2022 election -- and is a winning strategy for 2024.
44% : Ryan also pointed out that abortion will be on the ballot in New York next year, as voters weigh a proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
43% : Campaign strategists in both parties believe voters there were not as focused on abortion, since abortion rights had strong protections at the state level.
42% : (Abortion is currently legal under regular state law in New York.)
42% : In a new NBC News national poll, 57% of voters in the West and 55% in the Northeast, where abortion is largely legal, say that their own states have "struck the right balance" on abortion access.
41% : There was a stark difference in the parties' closing arguments in the 2022 midterms: Just 1% of GOP ads in House races mentioned abortion in October of last year, while 41% of Democratic ads mentioned the issue, according to an analysis from the ad tracking firm AdImpact.
38% : But similar shares of those voters -- 58% in the Northeast and 59% in the West -- say access to abortion across the country is "too difficult."
37% : As Democrats prepare to go on offense, Republicans are grappling with how to address abortion after largely ignoring it in the midterms.
36% :Republicans are already forecasting that they plan to paint Democrats as extreme on the other end of the abortion issue, arguing that Democrats do not support any limits on abortion.
35% : "It has been overrun with abortion-on-demand extremists who oppose limiting abortion after babies feel pain, ending late-term abortion, or even providing medical care to babies born alive after a failed abortion."
27% : Most of the 18 Republicans in Biden districts also faced Democratic attacks on abortion last year and still prevailed.

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