Democrats are unlikely to see the surge of angry abortion rights voters they hope for on midterm Election Day. Many are genuinely aggrieved by the expected rollback of abortion rights under Roe v. Wade, which was revealed by Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked majority opinion. But, as with so much that party officials flap in the public’s face, it is mostly a desperate, opportunistic attempt to deflect attention from the Democrats’ biggest political challenge this year.
As the Washington Examiner’s Byron York argues , voters are sour because President Joe Biden and the Democrats have turned a strong economy into a damaged and worrying one. Every issue other than this pales in voters’ minds, much though abortion is the more profound moral problem..................
