Ken (rape accusation is buyer's remore) lost the women's vote big time

[Liberal_in_LA]

Ken Buck’s Abortion Stance Cost Him a Senate Seat
By Laura Chapin

Posted: November 5, 2010
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LAKEWOOD, Colo.--Two numbers from Colorado's midterm elections: 71 percent and 17 percent. Seventy-one is the percentage by which the anti-choice Amendment 62 lost statewide. The 17 percent is the gender gap favoring Democrat Michael Bennet in the Senate race, according to exit polls from the New York Times.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Colorado is a pro-choice state, and though it's counter-intuitive to inside-the-beltway wisdom, being anti-choice in Colorado is a political liability.

Just ask Ken Buck.

Buck lost the Senate race to Democrat Michael Bennet in national Republican surge year, and all signs point to Buck's extreme positions on choice and reproductive rights having a lot to do with it. Even the head of the right-wing group FreedomWorks attributes Buck's loss to social issues.

Buck opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest, and he supported both Amendment 62 in 2010 and its predecessor, Amendment 48, in 2008 (which failed by the same huge margins statewide). Both these amendments would have given full legal rights to fertilized eggs under the Colorado constitution, banning abortion in all cases, even for victims of rape or incest, banning emergency contraception, even for victims of rape or incest, and banning many forms of birth control.

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