{"id":9166,"date":"2022-10-28T20:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2022-10-28T20:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:31:42","slug":"is-post-roe-voter-registration-benefiting-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9166","title":{"rendered":"Is post-Roe voter registration benefiting Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Generally, voter registration is split pretty close to 50-50. It varies a little bit by state, but not much. To see a period of time over several weeks where women accounted for almost 70 percent of registered voters \u2014 I\u2019ve never seen anything like that.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;There\u2019s no state that comes close to Kansas in terms of that size of the gender gap, which makes sense. I mean, Kansas seems almost impossible. But in Kansas, they also had an immediate constitutional amendment ballot initiative as a referendum on the future of choice in the state. So it would make sense that women were more energized there than they might be in other states because the pattern that seems to be holding up is that the surges in registration among women seem to be more closely connected to states where choice is more at risk or it\u2019s more relevant to specific elections this year.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;It\u2019s mostly younger women. In Kansas, over half of the women who registered to vote after&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;were under the age of 25 \u2014 52 percent.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/9\/4\/23333329\/roe-voter-registration-dobbs-midterms-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/9\/4\/23333329\/roe-voter-registration-dobbs-midterms-democrats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Generally, voter registration is split pretty close to 50-50. It varies a little bit by state, but not much. To see a period of time over several weeks where women accounted for almost 70 percent of registered voters \u2014 I\u2019ve never seen anything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s no state that comes close to Kansas in terms of that size of the gender gap, which makes sense. I mean, Kansas seems almost impossible. But in Kansas, they also had an immediate constitutional amendment ballot initiative as a referendum on the future of choice in the state. So it would make sense that women were more energized there than they might be in other states because the pattern that seems to be holding up is that the surges in registration among women seem to be more closely connected to states where choice is more at risk or it\u2019s more relevant to specific elections this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s mostly younger women. In Kansas, over half of the women who registered to vote after Dobbs were under the age of 25 \u2014 52 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[198,386,479],"class_list":["post-9166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-elections","tag-voters","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9167,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions\/9167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}