when it called its district attorney boudin. and that local election in blue, blue california was held up by pundits as a canary in the coal mine for democrats the party, according to them had a crime problem that republicans would seize on in an election year, one that already favored and here were some of those headlines. progressive backlash in california fuels democratic debate over crime. california voters send a stark message to democrats on crime and homelessness. democrats need to know the message that crisis september. week of recall, gas topped $5 a gallon for the first time ever and republicans began gearing up to make the election all about inflation. those were theoretically, the contours of this election, only a few months ago, as of the first week of june and then two weeks later, everything changed. the united states supreme court struck down a 50-year precedent protecting a woman s own right to control her own body which upended politicals across the country.
right to their body. but they coalesced in large part because of what happened six weeks later. on awkward 2nd, voters in deep red texas went to the polls in droves. and democrats heard that message out ofat kansas and they heard tell loud and career. it was time to make this campaign a referendum a public assault on personal freedom. abortion became the central issue of the campaign. ads about abortion became e the norm.he democrats rose in the polls in parallel topo outrage of the supreme court decision, and that spread across the country but as democrats focused their message on abortion there was just simply less time to talk about other issues, some of which were really pretty good for democrats. because overor the course of th same summer, democrats managed to pull off a historic