Robert and Jill have been EVERYWHERE!!! What a great thing for a retired attorney to do: save his nation, rather than go sailing off into the sunset on pleasure trips.
I am not surprised about Iowa. It has a progressive history - at least 150 years ago. I have been researching my great and great great grandfathers. The latter co-founded the town of Fairfield and incorporated what became the Iowa State Fair. He helped Lincoln with creating the Republican Party to fight against southern oligarchs and slavery. Today Fairfield is the home of Maharishi International University.
When I lived there in the 80s, it was a back n forth state. Iowa had a slogan then: Iowa-- A State of Minds. Since IA went hard-core red though, it should have rebranded as Iowa Has Lost Its Mind(s). What it really says is under all that Midwestern decency, or veneer thereof for some, there is a virulence that Trump gave permission to express. I hope the decency part becomes ascendant soon. I have relatives there too.
Here is what the Bulwark had to say about the Iowa poll. It doesn't add immensely to what The Daily Iowan offered, but it fleshes out the demographics some. What amused me was their level of excitement. Sarah Longwell was participating from a stairwell at her sister's baby shower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTU0ZWFNmzs
The demographics here are so significant: White women over 70 viscerally remember the pre-Roe days. I volunteered in a free clinic in the early 70's that made arrangements and provided bus fare for pregnant women to get to New York where abortion was legal, from Michigan where it was not. I remember their fear and angst like it was yesterday. Over the 5 decades since? No way in hell are we going back.
I seriously think that the Dobbs decision had the effect of hurrying Jurate's departure. As one of the Friends of Jane in Chicago when she was in college, she really took it hard when she heard the news.
I believe older women feel the loss of Roe more acutely because they fought so hard for it in the first place. I’m in my 50’s and the first protest I ever attended was around the time of the Casey decision when abortion rights were really on the line for the first time since Roe and the righteous anger was palpable. If other women feel the way I do, even though it no longer impacts my personal body, I think more than Iowa is in play. Florida, anyone? I can’t think of a place with a higher population of older women and abortion being on the ballot there just makes the issue that much more salient.
Not a believer in polls, but it must make Iowans feel better. Their Commie, Marxist, fascist, whatever's deserve it. To feel better. Good luck to them.
As a Michigan woman over 70, who can never forget the women under 40 in the early 70's, who called our free clinic, desperate for help to get to New York for an abortion, I fully believe the Iowa poll. Do not assume most Republican women will vote red.
As the old labor song "Bread & Roses" has it, "The rising of the women is the rising of us all." Just found this wonderful video of Joan Baez and sister Mimi Fariña singing it a cappella. No date is given -- Mimi died in 2001. https://youtu.be/vqJHUkOTLOQ?si=kFDoPHODElSmiuIk
Reports of the Taliban putting the Afghan women back into forced obscurity and servility may in some way have helped women here see what lies in store if the control freaks and geeks get their way. Additionally, the agricultural Midwest has always had a sense of pragmatism and at some level has recognized that our elections are in large part class struggles. The GOP knows this and that's why they start culture wars, plot and deploy dirty tricks, and in recent years have captured the votes of those with the fanboy/girl mentalities. The growth of corporate farms accelerated the GOP's hold on the Midwest because they brought money and the aforementioned tactics into that region. The GOP is good at making people love their oppressors. I hope we never drift into the permanent sadness and defeatism of a people like the Russians and others living under an oligarchy.
25 thousand in NC tonight for
Kamala Harris rally! Robert
Hubble, his wife Jill and
Jessica Craven are on the
ground there, went to the
rally and are canvassing for
Harris-Walz. Whoo hoo!
Substack on the ground in
NC.😁👍
Robert and Jill have been EVERYWHERE!!! What a great thing for a retired attorney to do: save his nation, rather than go sailing off into the sunset on pleasure trips.
I am not surprised about Iowa. It has a progressive history - at least 150 years ago. I have been researching my great and great great grandfathers. The latter co-founded the town of Fairfield and incorporated what became the Iowa State Fair. He helped Lincoln with creating the Republican Party to fight against southern oligarchs and slavery. Today Fairfield is the home of Maharishi International University.
When I lived there in the 80s, it was a back n forth state. Iowa had a slogan then: Iowa-- A State of Minds. Since IA went hard-core red though, it should have rebranded as Iowa Has Lost Its Mind(s). What it really says is under all that Midwestern decency, or veneer thereof for some, there is a virulence that Trump gave permission to express. I hope the decency part becomes ascendant soon. I have relatives there too.
Let us hope.They are that rumble in the distance. Dust cloud? The Cavalry is coming!
Here is what the Bulwark had to say about the Iowa poll. It doesn't add immensely to what The Daily Iowan offered, but it fleshes out the demographics some. What amused me was their level of excitement. Sarah Longwell was participating from a stairwell at her sister's baby shower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTU0ZWFNmzs
The demographics here are so significant: White women over 70 viscerally remember the pre-Roe days. I volunteered in a free clinic in the early 70's that made arrangements and provided bus fare for pregnant women to get to New York where abortion was legal, from Michigan where it was not. I remember their fear and angst like it was yesterday. Over the 5 decades since? No way in hell are we going back.
I seriously think that the Dobbs decision had the effect of hurrying Jurate's departure. As one of the Friends of Jane in Chicago when she was in college, she really took it hard when she heard the news.
Heartbreaking.
Literally
No, we are not going back, in the US or anywhere else, ever. 🐈⬛
YES!!
Good for Iowa Democrats for working so diligently for their party and state.
I believe older women feel the loss of Roe more acutely because they fought so hard for it in the first place. I’m in my 50’s and the first protest I ever attended was around the time of the Casey decision when abortion rights were really on the line for the first time since Roe and the righteous anger was palpable. If other women feel the way I do, even though it no longer impacts my personal body, I think more than Iowa is in play. Florida, anyone? I can’t think of a place with a higher population of older women and abortion being on the ballot there just makes the issue that much more salient.
Not a believer in polls, but it must make Iowans feel better. Their Commie, Marxist, fascist, whatever's deserve it. To feel better. Good luck to them.
God news from Iowa, thanks Tom. I really think we are on he verge of electing our first Madam President.
As a Michigan woman over 70, who can never forget the women under 40 in the early 70's, who called our free clinic, desperate for help to get to New York for an abortion, I fully believe the Iowa poll. Do not assume most Republican women will vote red.
Yes they will.....
Amen to your final comment, Tom! We both think that women WILL save America!
Yes, I do believe it.Women.Are.Going To Save.America !!!We got this and we are NEVER GOING BACK!
As the old labor song "Bread & Roses" has it, "The rising of the women is the rising of us all." Just found this wonderful video of Joan Baez and sister Mimi Fariña singing it a cappella. No date is given -- Mimi died in 2001. https://youtu.be/vqJHUkOTLOQ?si=kFDoPHODElSmiuIk
Thank you so much!
Reports of the Taliban putting the Afghan women back into forced obscurity and servility may in some way have helped women here see what lies in store if the control freaks and geeks get their way. Additionally, the agricultural Midwest has always had a sense of pragmatism and at some level has recognized that our elections are in large part class struggles. The GOP knows this and that's why they start culture wars, plot and deploy dirty tricks, and in recent years have captured the votes of those with the fanboy/girl mentalities. The growth of corporate farms accelerated the GOP's hold on the Midwest because they brought money and the aforementioned tactics into that region. The GOP is good at making people love their oppressors. I hope we never drift into the permanent sadness and defeatism of a people like the Russians and others living under an oligarchy.
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This is very encouraging news!!!