Friday, November 11, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: Eggheads weigh in on what motivates voters in midterm elections

 
Top headlineThe Conversation
Bottom headlineNew York Times
More recent evidence, however, suggests that voter concern over inflation may trump abortion as a motivating issue. We are a multi-university team of social scientists that has been regularly polling Americans in all 50 states since April 2020. 
Four times over the past six months we surveyed 22,000 to 27,000 Americans – in March and April, June and July, August and September, and then in more detail in October 2022 – to explore the likely effects of abortion politics on voter attitudes and behavior. 
Following the Dobbs decision, we found no clear evidence of a change in Americans’ preferences for which party should control the House and Senate after the election. We conducted this research using generic ballots – polls that ask people about their political party preference, but not specifically about which candidate they support.

There is so much hedging in this article that you need this
to get through it.

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