Forget the Republicans for a second. Even Democrats in the Red State of Kansas could not believe what came their way in a so-called referendum on abortion rights recently in the aftermath of the stunning, but expected, overturn of Roe vs Wade by the United States Supreme Court on June 24, 2022. Armed with a margin of 19 percentage points, the people of Kansas retained the right to abortion. This was also the same State where Donald Trump trounced Hillary Clinton by 20 points in 2016, and Joseph Biden by 15 points in 2020.
For Democrats, the news from Kansas was a relief of sorts, what with a troubled presidency with historic low approval ratings and an almost alarming rate of departures by White House staff. Traditionally, the party of the President suffers in the off-year mid-terms, but on November 8, there is expected to be some sort of a ‘killing’ this time round, with the Grand Old Party running amok in the House of Representatives and even edging Democrats out of their razor-thin majority in the Senate (where Republicans need only one seat in order to turn the tables).
