Democrats are reeling this week from having been bounced around like pinballs with bad polling results for 2024 followed by excellent returns in the off-year elections. It's hard to know what to make of it all. But now that the smoke has cleared a little bit we can come to some solid conclusions.
First, the elections this week showed conclusively that Democratic voters are still motivated to vote to keep Republicans from further eroding abortion rights than they already have. They cemented the right to choose in the Ohio constitution, re-elected a pro-choice governor in conservative Kentucky and repudiated a rising Republican star who campaigned on a plan to enact a 15-week ban in Virginia which the GOP absurdly seemed to believe was a consensus position.
