Abortion Politics for Dems; Dr. Oz Gets Booed At His Own Event; Fired Up Base for 2022 Dems?; Is Abortion Issue What GOP Really Wants?

Hosts: Adam Sommer, Rachel Parker, Sean Diller

1. True or False: The Dobbs leak will help Dems see the value of strategic thinking over reactionary thinking

1. Rachel Bitecofer - author of The Unprecedented 2016 Presidential Election, where she argued that the election of Donald Trump was not the result of one or two causes, but rather the product of a long process that began in the 1950s

1. Rejects idea of the swing voter in favor of the coalitional, basically sports team voter motivated only by beating the other side

1. Article explaining her theory https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/06/rachel-bitecofer-profile-election-forecasting-new-theory-108944

1. Founded “Strike pac” which she calls a war machine of the left

1. The sound of one hand clapping

1. Yeah…No: Dr. Oz Gets Booed

1. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-donald-trump-booing-pennsylvania-rally-1349483/

1. Buy or Sell: anti-abortion extremism will fire up the base and lead to down ticket wins in state legislatures in red states

1. Picture of the woman alone in my town

2. 2 days later over 100 folks showed up to carry on the message

3. Rallies all over the place

2. The Big One: How will republicans replace the golden goose wedge issue of abortion?

1. Extremely successful wedge issue, most since slavery as a political issue

2. The principle of abortion regulation/restrictions of all access is at odds with actual libertarians and even many of the “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” types

3. Will it put GOP into a funk? See above - will dems learn to think strategically?

4. Dr. Oz - says we have to fight big tech because they are selling babies online, he really did at a Trump rally

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