The ’23 Elections and the Abortion Effect
To the Editor: Re “How Abortion Lifted Democrats, and More Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections” (nytimes.com, Nov. 8): The New York Times and other media continue to repeat what they think is the bad news about President Biden’s popularity.
This constant drip, drip, drip wears away at the real story of his many successes and makes connections that don’t exist. After Tuesday’s elections, you write, “The political potency of abortion rights proved more powerful than the drag of President Biden’s approval ratings in Tuesday’s off-year elections.” What do Mr.
Biden’s approval ratings have to do with abortion rights on the ballot? Or with the legislative races in Virginia? Or any number of Democratic wins (or even losses) across the country?
If I were in Ohio, for example, I’d vote my values on the abortion question and would not be thinking an iota about the 2024 presidential election or Mr.
