What Went Down During The May 17 Primary Elections

Like our colleagues said, there’s plenty of evidence that moderates win elections. But increasingly they’re getting discouraged and not running. This is especially the case among Republican women, as Danielle Thomsen, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, has written. So you have to ask if moderate (women) are opting out, who is opting in?

Holly, that’s interesting but not surprising. I’ve been speaking with a lot of experts who’ve told me that most Americans don’t know a lot about what the abortion laws are and generally didn’t think Roe would be overturned. If it is, which it looks like it will be, I wonder if the issue will increase in importance for some voters.

In other PA-12 news, the Republican primary in that district is over as ABC projects Mike Doyle won his race unopposed. Pittsburgh NPR would like you to take note, though, that despite sharing the same name with Pittsburgh’s retiring congressional incumbent Michael Doyle they are “not the same person”.