Kansas voters overwhelmingly shot down an amendment that would have stripped their constitution of its state Supreme Court-interpreted abortion protections Tuesday, a surprising outcome on the heels of a wave of last-minute enthusiasm from those furious at the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Just going say, Yah Kansas voters!
Hopefully this is the turn of the tide (finally).
Cheats to the end…and still lost.
They made a very bad call
OT: More good news…
WAHOO! Let’s see if we can turn this into a MONSTER blue wave!!!
This probably should not come as a surprise. Although the issue is said to be abortion I’m not so sure that’s the gist of it. I think NO ONE likes to be told they can’t do something be it abortion or smoking a joint. Particularly if the reason for the no is the religion of the naysayer. Tonight was a fuck you by women to those that want to control them. It’s not just abortion it’s a rejection of control.
Religious extremists will now claim that the vote was rigged. All the votes from the majority no counties should be selectively thrown out.
Sleazy Alito will call the Secretary of State and ask for the “no” votes to be discarded and also the votes from women since they did not have the vote when the original Constitution was adopted.
Hmm. I can recall all the way back to…this past weekend, when Samuel Alito was pounding his chest, dissing foreign leaders for not having his vision or clarity of thought.
Methinks he chastised too soon. Now who’s the one out of touch with the people?
Rigged, unfair and fraudulent have run their course. Not going to play here.
"I had some trouble back in New York. I mean Kansas."
In my best Christopher Walken
Foreign leaders like (checks notes) Kansas voters.
Well, they couldn’t have known in advance the SCOTUS stuff and how that would motivate people to get to the polls. But I do take your larger point.
I’m not so sure that would get things to swing in favor of the Yes position. Maps of the counties will show in absolute terms which position won, but the votes in many, many of the rural counties were closer than those absolutes would indicate. Besides: there were plenty of Yes votes in the metro areas; to throw those votes out as well could possibly cause the Yes people to lose all over again, just not as decisively.
Fuck yeah! Anti-choicers around the country sweating right now.
Although I would be curious to know how many of the underhanded tactics–the misleading naming and wording; the lying robocalls–actually backfired. Surely some of their own people were duped, right?
You missed the magically “should be selectively thrown out.”
How was the question worded?
Love to the Kansas voters who made this happen. If I ever thought stereotypically about you, I repent and apologize. You’re rational Americans and we have a lot in common and should date. 
I am fully confident that the KS legislature will figure out a way to invalidate this vote. But if they really do have a Democratic governor now, perhaps that has no hope of actually happening. I will be so grateful if this is a true early forerunner vote that predicts defeat for the Authoritarian party Confederates this fall. News cycles are so short now and propaganda so loud however that I still have significant doubts.
