This may be unpopular, but I'm ok with running anti-choice Dems if it will win elections.

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116. anecdote is not data

You say you're sure they would vote Democrat? Why? If they are truly committed to banning abortion, they would be foolish to do so. Someone who cares enough to protest at a clinic is not going to suddenly forget that the Democratic Party is pro-choice because a candidate in their local district isn't.

Democrats have always accommodated anti-choice candidates. Some are serving in the Senate and House today. That didn't help them win the majority, did it?

This isn't about tolerating a few anti-choice candidates. It's a public statement meant to placate a faction of critics, many of whom refused to vote for our nominee and said they don't intend to vote Dem. in upcoming elections.

These are people who said they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Clinton because she wasn't "progressive enough" (though they remain to this day willfully uninformed about her policy proposals). They insisted the party wasn't "left" enough for them, that they needed a reason to vote for Democrats, not just against Trump. Since the November defeat they contributed to through their votes against Clinton, they have continued to attack the party and made demands that we "bend the knee." Yet despite their rhetoric, they focus their efforts not on banks or corporations but on undermining abortion rights and civil rights, claiming--without any evidence--that it's a necessary compromise to win. If they really cared about the Democrats' wining, why not vote Democratic? It turns out all this time when there were talking about wanting a reason to vote for Democrats, that reason they wanted was to relegate the majority of Americans to second-class citizenship, increased poverty, and higher death rates.