Lol at the Republicans trying to make this look damaging.
That's what happens when you have nothing left to run on.
No making up issues like contraceptives is what happens when you have nothing to run on.
Which is exactly why the republicans went ape sh**t over contraceptives, allowed the contraceptives issue to dominate Rick Santorum's campaign for the last two weeks. Congressional republicans were as bad as Santorum in making this an issue by holing the Issa hearings on the issue, and drafting the Blunt- Rubio amendment.
Some of them fell for it. They should've taken a stance such as "Go to a bathroom at a bar if you want contraceptives" or "You can get them for free just about anywhere" or something along those lines. Romney didn't fall for it against Stephanopolis but some of them did. Democrats are now losing on the abortion issue so they changed the issue to contraceptives.
Actually, according to Gallup there has been virtually no shift in the percentage of Americans who consider themselves Pro-choice or Pro-life since 1998. With the exception an low of 42% in 2009 before bouncing back up to 48% in 2010 the range of Pro-Choicers in the US has stayed in the narrow range of 45-48% while the range of Pro-lifers has stayed in the narrow range of 42%-47%, with an isolated spike up to 51% in 2009 before returning to 48% in 2011. I will concede the numbers are not what they were in the late '80s early 90's for the pro-choice movement, but since 1998 there has been no statistically significant movement in public opinion on abortion. Link:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx. But, if Republicans want to make abortion an issue in this election they can be my guest, we saw how well that worked in Mississippi(!!!) this past November.
