Jocelyn Fry, president of the non-partisan nonprofit National Partnership for Women and Families, said voters on Tuesday “rejected a false narrative that too often sees women and the issues they care about as separate from the economy. We have long said that women, who make up the majority of voters and a key driver of our economy, do not live in isolation,” Ms Fry said in a statement. “They don’t see their financial security as separate from their ability to control their reproductive health.”

This impact of the women’s vote was also felt in Tuesday’s nationwide elections, as well as other nationwide social issues votes.

Michigan

Democrats saw a similar trend in Pennsylvania and in Michiganwhere the party secured Fr.minority in the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time in 40 yearsand retained the offices of governor and attorney general, as well as a dual seat in Congress.

According to AP VoteCast, women voted 56% to 43% for Democratic Gov. Gretchen Woolitmer rather than Republican Tudor Dixon, the other female candidate, while men voted 52% to 47%. The gap was even sharper among college-educated women, 62 percent of whom supported Ms Whitmer compared to 37 percent who supported Ms Dixon. 36% of all Michigan-registered voters polled said they were “angry” at the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

In Michigan, California and Vermont voters decided to enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitutions.while residents of more conservative Kentucky rejected an amendment banning all statewide abortion rights.

Better-than-expected results for Democrats revived hope that abortion could be the issue that would ultimately determine control of the Senate. – especially in her second Senate round Georgiascheduled for Dec. 6, after neither Republicans nor Democrats managed to reach the required 50 percent threshold.

While Republicans pointed to soaring inflation and President Joe Biden’s low approval rating ahead of Tuesday’s vote, Democrats say. now the results have forced a reconsideration of what matters most to voters.

Tom Boner, Democratic strategist and chief executive of TargetSmart, a statistics and polling company, said even and as of September, women registered to vote significantly more than usual in states where abortion was in high-stakes elections.

“Democrats seem to have overdone it in the states where we have seen the largest gender gap in voter registration since the overturning of Roe v. Wade,” Mr. Bonnier said.

^{Source: Financial Times.}