In a large majority of states, most people think the vast majority of abortions should be legal: The immediate constriction of access to abortion that followed helped Democrats overperform in the 2022 midterms and probably continues to power Democratic electoral strength. In part, this is because Democrats have a new, potent organizing argument: protecting access to abortion. In part, though, it’s because most Americans — including a majority of people in most states won by former president Donald Trump in 2020 — think abortion should be legal. PRRI conducted a huge, national poll on views of abortion, covering respondents in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It found that not only that do most Americans believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, but most people in most states hold that position. Even Republicans are more than twice as likely to say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases than to say it should be banned completely. The results of the state-by-state poll are shown below.
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SAWTELL residents are fiercely protective of the magnificent fig trees that give First Avenue its unique character, so the great majority were dismayed to find a B-double truck had damaged one of them last Sunday night. Two vehicle owners were even more dismayed as the truck took down a large branch which wedged in the...
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THIRTY-three years strong, the Bellingen Autumn Plant Fair is back from 8am to 2pm on Saturday 11 March 2023 at Bellingen Park. Presented by the Bellingen Environment Centre Inc (BEC), this inclusive family friendly event welcomes all to attend and enjoy nature, food, music and plants. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth...
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THE Nana Glen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) needs volunteers to put up their hands as the service is down to one member. An urgent call-out on social media for volunteers has brought in a number of people enquiring to be trained, attend call-outs and give of their time, and while that is a great...
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GREENS MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson has urged Labor and the Coalition to join the Greens in a tripartisan approach to the proposed NSW Landcare Program 2023-2027 and to deliver a $59 million funding commitment over the next four years. The program is a collaboration of Local Land Services and Landcare NSW...
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SIX amazing women have been selected as finalists for this year’s Coffs Coast Woman of the Year, to be announced at the International Women’s Day Breakfast on March 8. Three major Coffs Coast women’s groups, Zonta Coffs Harbour Inc, BPW Coffs Coast (Business and Professional Women) and the Coffs Coast Business Women’s Network (BWN), collaborate...
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COFFS Harbour Showground Exhibition Hall and grandstand will literally light up with a new transformer/substation being installed as part of the upgrades on the historic Pacific Highway site. Funded by a $350,000 grant under Round Five of the NSW Government’s Stronger Country Communities Fund, the transformer is on order and keenly awaited by the Coffs...
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Labor says it can't do any more on the cost of living and its climate policies are a gift to big polluting companies
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Lidia Thorpe’s resignation from The Greens has exposed the limits of the party’s radicalism and invigorated the debate about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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The reintroduction of blanket alcohol bans on NT town camps and communities heralds the return of racist Intervention-era controls over Aboriginal people.
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The Albanese government wants to force changes to the climate Safeguard Mechanism through parliament by 31 March.
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On 30 January, coroner Simon McGregor handed down his report into the death of Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson in Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost prison.
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Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers has followed in the footsteps of previous Labor ministers, including Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2009, by penning a theoretical article in the pages of the Monthly.
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The NSW Liberals are unravelling in the face of growing scandals, with polls showing Labor comfortably ahead as the state election approaches on 25 March.
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Under Ardern's leadership, Labour went into decline, and is still heading for defeat in October.
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Labor’s announcement on permanent visas has been overshadowed by the fact that thousands of other refugees have been left in a hell of uncertainty.
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And the stupid crazy Ron Brownstein interviewed Simon Rosenberg of the NDN , one of the few Democratic analysts who saw that the 2022 Red Wave was hype. Here, he explains how he knew that: Brownstein: There was a widespread narrative in the media about the red wave. I spoke on the weekend before the election to half a dozen top-level Democratic operatives and pollsters who were anticipating disaster. You and a couple others were really the conspicuous exceptions to that. I’m wondering why the general wisdom, not only in the media, but in much of the party, was so off? And what are the implications of that for 2024? Rosenberg: When I look back at what happened, I go back to something we’ve been discussing, which is the power of the right-wing propaganda machines to bully public opinion into places that it shouldn’t be going. And I think there was never a red wave, and there needs to be a lot more public introspection done by those of us who do political analysis about why so many people got it wrong. The only way you could believe that a red wave was coming was if you just discounted the ugliness of MAGA.
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