Does this person have a chance to win, if they are running?
Also, does the fact that Rudy Guiliani is more pro-choice help or hurt his chances, if he is the nominee of the repub?
2007-08-17 04:22:28 · 10 answers · asked by Supercell 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
There is a small wing of the Democratic party called Democrats for Life that is working toward limiting the number of abortions. The most noticeable of the bunch is Lincoln Davis of Tennessee.
I like these guys the most in the debate on abortion.
They are not stupid enough to keep railing about 'women's rights' like the lefties or scream about abortion being murder like the right wing whack jobs either.
See: Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act, introduced by Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio)
These people are actually reasonable and offer viable solutions in order to get this issue out of the political debate and eliminate the need for the Supreme Court to legislate from the bench.
You will NEVER get a Democratic presidential candidate to talk like this so the answer to your question is no, there is not.
2007-08-17 04:37:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
An anti abortion demo could not be nominated. There are none running. Guiliani's pro-choice beliefs may win him a significant amount of borderline democratic votes if he is nominated, but he will lose the same amount or more pro-life votes form republicans who either will not vote, or will cast their ballot for the democratic nominee.
2007-08-17 04:41:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that Kucinich USED to oppose abortion, until he decided that he wanted to run for President. Then he changed.
Keep in mind, please, everyone, that the voters who care mostly about abortion are thinking, not about whether the Presidential candidate they are voting for (or against) is opposed to abortion, but whether or not the candidate is likely to appoint people to the Sup. Ct. who will or will not overturn the precedent of Roe v. Wade (and Planned Parenthood v. Casey).
2007-08-17 04:41:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If they want to keep the evangelical christian fundamentalist vote, then they have to take an anti-choice stance.
It would also help if they hadn't been divorced several times, and there weren't pictures widely available of themselves dressed in drag.
Though Rudy's '9/11, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11' rhetoric does resound with right wing christian fundamentalists.
The real question is - how in the hell are those same fundies going to square voting for a Mormon if Mitt Romney takes the GOP primary?
2007-08-17 04:33:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
For once I have to agree with "Bush Invented the Google"....This is not a Presidential issue, the law has been around 35 years and is not gonna change, and why anyone would vote for or against this as a Presidential issue is of constant amazement for me.....
2007-08-17 04:34:31 · answer #5 · answered by Ken C 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with Bush Invented the Go. However, it absolutely terrifies the Democrats that a "conservative" Supreme Court might actually overturn Roe v. Wade. That's why they vehemently oppose ANY candidate who they consider on the right.
2007-08-17 04:32:19 · answer #6 · answered by Bumblebee711 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No.
I think Rudy's abortion stance hurts him and the Republicans overall. I hope I'm wrong, though, since I don't want a Democrat to get elected.
2007-08-17 04:27:39 · answer #7 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Abortion should cease being an issue upon which people make their Presidential voting decisions. The President of the United States has no authority to outlaw abortion, so it doesn't matter how he or she feels about the issue.
2007-08-17 04:27:41 · answer #8 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 8⤊ 2⤋
All the Democrats take the same position as Bill did... Safe, Legal and Rare.... which qualifies them as Pro-choice.
2007-08-17 04:29:47 · answer #9 · answered by pip 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Probably, but they won't admit it. That wouldn't be following party lines.
2007-08-17 04:35:42 · answer #10 · answered by grumpyoldman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋