University grad, white, single.  .  . Democrat.                        Fox News exit polling found that 25% of 2022 midterm voters regarded Dobbs v. Jackson’s overturning 1973’s Roe v. Wade abortion protection to be the “single most important factor” in their vote. Earlier, we discussed  reasons for Republicans’ failure to reach their expected big gains last Fall. We mentioned abortion only in passing. My mistake. Losing a right held for 50 years is a far better motivator than gaining a right once lived without. And after all, “free choice,” so important to conservatives on most issues, on abortion works for progressives. Joel Kotkin, a demographer at Chapman University, believes  “the 2022 midterms may have been the [unmarried women without children’s] electoral coming-out party as they proved the chief break on the predicted Republican wave.” Kotkin noted that while CNN found that married men, ma...

The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left.  The choice is between normal or crazy . — Sarah Sanders, Arkansas Governor The media praised Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech. But in the 29-year history of one-person opposition party responses, Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders’ February 7 picture of our divided nation was the sharpest ever. Americans know crazy is teaching that America began in 1619 (not 1776) when “20 enslaved Africans were brought ashore in Virginia and sold;” teaching the racially divisive lie that it’s “slavery—and the anti‐black racism it required” that “truly made America exceptional”; seeing U.S. Senators wearing pins proclaiming “❤️ ABORTION;” circulating books aimed at 4- and 5-year old children laying the groundwork for sex organ operations while passing laws allowing biological boys in girls’ bathrooms; promoting “Defund the Police” into a Summer of “mostly peaceful” riots costing 17 lives and $2 billion in property damage; screa...