With Republicans strong on the economy, it’s not clear how much any other issue will matter.
By Susan B. Glasser
October 6, 2022
This weekend, when I ran into the former Democratic National Committee
chairwoman Donna Brazile, she told me that she was not super optimistic about
the midterm elections—a message she had shared in a recent meeting with top
White House aides about how to mobilize the Party’s voters. “Democrats have to
defy history,” she later told me. “It’s tough. That’s my worry.” There was,
however, one issue that gave Brazile some hope: the backlash to the Supreme Court’s
decision this summer to throw out Roe v. Wade, the abortion-rights decision
from 1973. It has resulted in a brewing voter rebellion neatly summed up in a
T-shirt that Brazile recently saw, which read “Roe, Roe, Roe to Vote.” She has
taken to singing the slogan like a refrain.