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and we also underestimated once again people voting against their own interest - 57% of voters voted to roll back the abortion ban in FL (needed 60%) while simultaneously voting for the person responsible for said ban 🤔

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No — not what I meant. 57% voted for, which means they want to roll back the 6week abortion ban law to where it was under Roe. 56% of all voters in FL also voted for Trump —the reason for said ban. That is a strange dichotomy. 

It also directly pushes against his claim that “everyone wanted this” and also why he wouldn’t even address the question yesterday. His answer to what he thought of the ban was “stop taking about that.” It’s odd to me that someone would vote yes on amendment 4 and vote for Trump.

> people voting against their own interest

For the 43% that didn't support it, why is it against their interest?

(I know nothing about  the ballot prop)

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Yup they will try again in 2 years and I’m sure some brave soul will bring it up before then within the legislature, but it would be a miracle if it passed. So we wait and hopefully not too many women die at least, but there will be some.  No doubt there. 

Also concerned about the impact on reproductive care overall as we lose OB/GYN’s.  Already happening in Texas.

Fwiw I think this will come up again and again until it's legalized.

Bubbling up from the states is good for a healthy republic. 7 states passed it last night.

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No the wording was fine — it would have rolled it back to viability. It did win the majority at 57% but for constitutional amendments in FL it needs to be 60%

Didn’t they just mess up how they worded that? That should have passed but I assumed the reading around abortion being an option up until the moment before birth was the culprit for that not passing

It’s quite bizarre — but here we are.

so much political data games consists of analysts trying to map people onto some simplistic analysis or framework

but people stay far weirder and deviate all the time from expectations 

would love to meet the guys voting for abortion rights and minimum wage referendums + trump in a deep red state 

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Inspired 57% of all voters —needed 3% more to get it over the line — point being the FL legislature does not reflect FL on this issue.

could it be that they had other more compelling interests? i didn’t follow FL closely but this sounds like the abortion ban didn’t inspire enough single-issue voters