Your 2022 midterms cheat sheet

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Democrats, meanwhile, ranked abortion, the January 6 committee hearings, and health care as top of mind.
53% : But after the overturning of Roe, the January 6th committee's trickle of revelations, and student loan cancellation, Democrats -- and Biden -- have gotten a boost.
49% : While abortion is still behind the economy, gun policy, and education in terms of voters' top priorities, it appears to be animating voters.
46% : Republican voters say they are most concerned with inflation, immigration, and abortion (in that order) according to a recent NPR/Marist poll.
45% : And Republicans want to use governorships to defend existing state laws restricting abortion and chart a path to further curbs to the procedure.
44% : White college graduates strongly approve of Joe Biden's job performance, back Democrats by a two to one margin, and are most concerned with abortion, inflation, and the January 6th hearings.
41% : First among them is codifying reproductive rights and access to abortion, for which Biden has previously said he'd support an exception to the filibuster.
40% : Those policies defy the 85 percent of Americans who think that abortion should be legal in all or some circumstances, according to a long-running survey by Gallup.
38% : Republicans may also attempt to get spending cuts as concessions from the White House when the time comes to raise the cap on government spending in 2023.
37% : The winners of those contests will affect state policies on issues as varied as abortion, voting rights and Covid-19.
37% : Now, however, a handful of Republican candidates have begun to moderate their tone on abortion, given the results of special elections and extremely negative polling since the Supreme Court's decision.
37% : The cap must be raised to avoid financial disaster, something Republicans took advantage of back in 2011 to force Democrats to accept automatic cuts to government spending.
36% : General dissatisfaction with the government, abortion, and immigration are among the remaining top concerns.
36% : After the Dobbs decision and before polling and elections showed an angry electorate, Republicans were talking about the possibility of passing a nationwide ban on abortion if they took control of Congress.
35% : Abortion, of course, is just one of the major issues this election season.
31% : But much of that agenda would be limited by control of just one chamber -- and still places payback first, like putting "an end to 'Build Back Better.'" What Republicans would do on abortion is less clear.
21% : Non-college-educated white voters, meanwhile, strongly disapprove of Biden, back Republicans, and are worried about inflation, abortion, and immigration.

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