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Reproductive care. In theory, turnout would be low, making the initiative easier to pass, and therefore the fall vote on abortion harder to pass. The problem, voters saw through it, and turned out in droves, resoundingly rejecting the gop effort to make it harder to protect access to abortion. An outcome prominent members of the state party worried was inevitable as explained by republican state rep, jamie calendar to ali vitali on this show yesterday. Whats the lesson for your party come tuesday night or wednesday morning, the Ballot Initiative fails . Maybe we should spend more time thinking...

four. with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. w, igood evening >> good evenin, rachel. i will be on the port side of the vote from where you -- from where you will be sitting. what's a shocker. i mean, this committee has been very carefully scheduling. and then, the only thing they were doing with the schedule was pushing it further out. and actually, in effect, giving us bigger breaks. just suddenly, i have to jump to position for a hearing from this committee. by the way, for any committee, i mean scheduling a hearing overnight, that's just the rarest thing in committee wo...

>> why do you think there is -- why is there a rush? i mean, if they got something new, obviously, they could've factored it into the readings that they've already scheduled for july. they could've factored it into hearings they have scheduled a week from now. why, what could possibly explain why there is a rush to get the new evidence, get the new witness testimony before the american public, urgently on zero notice? >> and here we crash into the limits on my ability to guess. [laughs] but here's what i think is really striking about it, rachel. some of these members, adam schiff, h...

Referendum, and you have to imagine that momentum is going to be sustained, especially as we've seen the polling show the energy remains behind democrats on issues like reproductive access. >> semafor laid out all of the ways the vote outperforms democrats in certain districts in ohio and even outperformed republicans in districts in ohio. walk me through what we learned from this state and how it could turn into a message nationally. >> we've seen a pretty consistent pattern at this point, now that we've had a few ballot initiatives, if they didn't directly deal with abortion, they dealt with...

And opponents of roe v. wade in both parties. but the issue was largely ignored. in her latest new york times with, professor mary ziegler writes, for the better part of a decade after row, abortion was on the backburner for major figures in both political parties. but by the 19 80s ronald reagan saw abortion as an opportunity. reagan, who as governor of california, had signed a law that made abortion accessible in some cases in the state, understood that white evangelical protestant and some catholics were increasingly anxious about the rise of the feminist movement, the early fight for gay r...