Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the No Chit Chat podcast.

We like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is the question of abortion

and the midterm election.

Specifically, the question of whether the abortion issue will somehow rescue troubled

Democrats in November.

Now there's been a lot of speculation that this Supreme Court ruling, this draft of

a Supreme Court ruling, overturning Roe versus Wade, if that actually happens, don't know

that it will, but if it does, if it actually happens, the Supreme Court overturns Roe,

that would be a boost for Democrats in the midterm elections.

Now there seems to be no doubt that the decision will, in fact, motivate some part of the Democratic

base. I think that's, that's unquestionable, but, but still there are serious questions

about who, how many, and how important they would be to the election results.

Now, polling shows that abortion is just not at the highest level of voter concerns, okay?

Never is, by the way, but isn't now even after the unprecedented leak of this draft decision

that would end Roe. Politico conducted a quicky poll after the leak, and it did not find

a midterm electorate obsessed with abortion.

Now with these polls, I always like to go sort of deep inside the polls into what they

call the cross tabs and see who's thinking what about a particular issue.

So the question that Politico asked was, quote, thinking about your vote.

What would you say is the top set of issues on your mind when you cast your vote for federal

offices such as U.S. Senate or Congress? Okay, so that's the question clearly framed

in terms of midterm voting for Senate or House. So after the question, the bolsters gave

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