A new Washington Post poll shows President Obama leads Mitt in Virginia, 52 to 44%.
Virginia is one of the states Obama won that Mitt really needs to pull back into the GOP column, but it’s a state where the Tea Party has over-played its hand.
The Obama campaign sends its thanks to Gov. Bob “Ultrasound” McDonnell. The state’s obsession with lady parts since 2010 has the ladies parting with the GOP.
President Obama is leading Mitt in Virginia by 8 points — 51 to 43. Among women, the President is leading by 17 points — 55 to 38%. Thank you, Bob McDonnell, Governor Ultrasound!
Six percent of those who voted for Obama in 2008 say they will vote for Mitt this time. But 12% of those who voted for McCain say they will vote for Obama.
While Virginia is becoming more “purple,” it is still a conservative state. But even so, a new Quinnipiac University poll finds that 52% of voters oppose the new law forcing women to have ultrasounds before they can have an abortion. Only 41% approve of the law.
Even more interesting, and heartening, 72% believe that government shouldn’t enact laws whose purpose is to change women’s minds about having an abortion.
A new poll shows that Gov. Bob ” Forced Ultrasound” McConnell of Virginia isn’t very popular in his own state these day. If Mitt chooses him as his running mate, they lose Virginia to President Obama 50-43.
The new law forcing women seeking to have abortions to also have a state-imposed ultrasound at their expense may cost McConnell the vice presidential spot.
Which is ironic, since forcing women to have something they don’t want is costing him something he desperately wants.
David Frum, “Conservatives: Do You Really Want to Do This to Your Party?,” The Daily Beast
Interesting that Frum, a former speechwriter for Bush 43, says “your” party, not “our” party.
My caption for the above photo: “I think this is how long that transvaginal ultrasound wand should be.”
The Pennsylvania bill requiring women to have an ultrasound and then wait 24 hours before having an abortion is called the “Women’s Right to Know” bill.
That would be funny if it weren’t so infuriating.
The only member of the Virginia Senate who is also a physician, Dr. Ralph Northam, describes the bill requiring ultrasounds before an abortion as “a tremendous assault on women’s health care and a tremendous insult to physicians.”
Virginia is still requiring an ultrasound before you can get an abortion, but they changed it from a physically-invasive trans-vaginal ultrasound to a trans-abdominal ultrasound.
But I think any ultrasound requirement is unconstitutional.
If you want to exercise your constitutional right to an abortion in Virginia, the Commonwealth will force you to undergo an invasive, medically unnecessary trans-vaginal ultrasound. If you refuse to have a probe inserted in your vagina because some crazy people have taken over your legislature, you will not be able to have an abortion.
This is glaringly unconstitutional, but until the law is struck down, women will be forced to endure the outrage and expense of this procedure, which also carries a risk of infection.
The government needs a warrant to enter your home, but your vagina? Not so much.
