Abortion is a crucial issue in this election \u2013 and a powerful motivator for voters. Yet the president is still tiptoeing around it<\/p>\n
For years, the beltway set had a standard line of advice for Democratic candidates: stick to the economy. The idea was that white, male, blue-collar voters \u2013 those magical creatures, somewhere out there in the windswept lands of the upper midwest, who always qualify in the pundit imagination as \u201creal Americans\u201d \u2013 would be turned off by so-called culture-war issues.<\/p>\n
These guys, we were told, didn\u2019t want to hear about civil rights or social equality: they wanted to hear about economic growth. According to this advice, Democrats could be pro-choice, pro-racial justice, or pro-LGBTQ rights, but not openly, avowedly so. They had to play their progressive social positions in a minor key.<\/p>\n
Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n
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