Kansas Upheld Abortion Rights And Other Key Updates From The Aug. 2 Elections

It would make some sense if the vote in Kansas was more firmly about a right to privacy than abortion. In our last FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll released in mid-July, we asked Americans whether there is a right to privacy established in the U.S. Constitution as well as a right to abortion. Overall, 65 percent of Americans said the Constitution had a right to privacy in it, with little difference across party lines. On the other hand, 39 percent said there was no legal right to abortion in the Constitution, compared with 30 percent who did. This was driven largely by Republicans, among whom 70 percent said there was no legal right (Democrats had a larger percentage of unsure respondents).