A great analysis of the dreaded abortion issue, from Matt Taibbi's blog:
Most of all, I think abortion is one of those issues that politicians use to inflame the public and keep them away other, more complicated issues. In that regard I do think the recent emphasis on abortion and the campaigns against Planned Parenthood and the like are part of the same age-old What’s the Matter With Kansas? technique of using divisive social issues to keep lower and middle-class voters from wondering about things like the bailouts and commodity prices. And that technique works really well, because people tend to be unpersuaded by anything else once they see that a candidate is on the wrong side of their abortion stance. From my point of view, the more noise there is about abortion, the less chance any of this Wall Street stuff reaches the general public.
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