[ad_1] CNN — Democrats will pick up a GOP-held Senate seat in Pennsylvania in a huge boost to their hopes of clinging to the chamber, while the red wave that Republicans hoped for has yet to materialize in the House. Democratic nominee John Fetterman’s victory over Republican Mehmet Oz means …
Read More »Exit polls: What voters are thinking as America goes to the polls
[ad_1] CNN — Read below for analysis of CNN’s preliminary 2022 national exit polls. More than three-quarters of Ohio voters said the nation’s economy was “poor” or “not so good,” according to the preliminary results of the Ohio Exit Poll conducted for CNN and other news networks by Edison Research. …
Read More »Abortion ballot measures: These states have them in the midterm elections
[ad_1] CNN — Voters in a small number of states will decide in this week’s midterm elections how those states should handle the abortion issue. Abortion rights have taken on an increased significance and become a top focus in the midterm elections after the US Supreme Court’s ruling this summer …
Read More »Chaos and confusion: As a window opens for legal abortion in Arizona, providers ride emotional roller coaster alongside patients
[ad_1] Tempe, Arizona CNN — Dr. Jill Gibson is jogging from patient to patient through the complicated maze of exam rooms, wearing navy scrubs, protective booties and a magenta shirt reading “I Stand with Planned Parenthood.” Gibson, Planned Parenthood Arizona’s Medical Director, saw nine patients the day CNN visited their …
Read More »Democrats confront their nightmare scenario on election eve as economic concerns overshadow abortion and democracy worries
[ad_1] CNN — Democrats close their midterm election campaign Monday facing the nightmare scenario they always feared – with Republicans staging a gleeful referendum on Joe Biden’s struggling presidency and failure to tame inflation. Hopes that Democrats could use the Supreme Court’s overturning of the right to an abortion and …
Read More »Analysis: 2022 midterm election has been 3 elections in 1
[ad_1] CNN — Elections are not linear. They bump along in fits and starts, constantly evolving as they go. That’s been the story of the 2022 midterm election, which can be divided into three distinct acts. This portion of the election ran from January 2021 until June 2022. The defining …
Read More »‘Call Jane’ review: Elizabeth Banks stars in fictionalized look at a pre-Roe world through one woman’s abortion journey
[ad_1] CNN — “Call Jane” is a good example of how a few questionable choices can muddle an otherwise-powerful story, with the recent HBO documentary version of these events, “The Janes,” outshining this fictionalized dramatic account. The portrait of an underground abortion network pre-Roe v. Wade is obviously timely, but …
Read More »Voters’ top concern is the economy as Democrats seek a ‘closing message’ to draw contrasts with GOP on combating inflation
[ad_1] CNN — Fifteen days from the midterm elections, new CNN polls in battleground states show that the issue at the front of voters’ minds is the economy and inflation – a reality that could tilt the outcome of key races with Democrats’ narrow House and Senate majorities in the …
Read More »Mystery robocall thanks Democrats in competitive Georgia races for supporting abortion rights of ‘birthing persons’
[ad_1] CNN — A political robocall made to tens of thousands of Georgians thanked a vulnerable congressional Democrat and the Democratic nominee for governor for protecting the rights of “birthing persons” to “have an abortion up until the date of birth” – targeting abortion rights tension in the competitive races. …
Read More »Rubio and Demings to spar in only debate matchup of under-the-radar Florida Senate race
[ad_1] CNN — With three weeks until Election Day, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democrat Rep. Val Demings will debate for the first and only time Tuesday, putting a spotlight, at least for an hour, on a US Senate race that has flown under the radar. Beyond providing a venue …
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