Hey y'all, this is Daniel from Florida. I moved here two weeks ago from Vermont to start a graduate program and drove past many sheets and wawat's on the way.

Day two of my program and I already have a ton of reading to do. This podcast was recorded at.

I feel like Vermont to Florida might be a lifestyle shift. So good luck. It's 106 Eastern on Thursday, May 19th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully I'm done with my reading. All right, here's the show.

Well, I can't believe this sheets wawat thing is still a thing. This is never gonna go away. It's like six years at this point.

Six years, the most memorable, off-hand comment I made in my life.

And that you're lucky to find either one of them if you're on the road. I will tell you that.

I'm just saying this is Casey's a racer. Casey's is the greatest convenience store of all time.

Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I've just got that trial. I cover the White House.

I'm Danielle Kurtz-Labin. I cover demographics and culture.

And I'm Dominica Montanero, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.

Dominica, you got engaged over the weekend. Congratulations.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. We're very excited. And thank you guys.

And Dominica, in addition to getting engaged, equally importantly, I might say, you worked on a brand new NPR PBS NewsHour Marist poll that just came out today with some interesting results, some topical results.

It shows that about two thirds of Americans say they do not support overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the U.S.

The poll also showed the issue is not quite that clear cut, which we're going to get into. And of course, the backdrop to all of this is that leaked draft opinion that makes it clear the Supreme Court will likely overturn this 49 year old decision sometime next month.

So, Dominica, let's get into those specifics. People are supportive of abortion broadly, but that does not mean people want to see no restrictions. Is that right?

Yeah. I mean, you said about two thirds of people do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned. 64% said that, but 68% are in favor of some degree of restrictions on abortion rights. And that's where this kind of messaging war kind of winds up because you have a broad array of when people think abortion should be legal.

There's a lot of gray area and a lot of nuance in the middle. And, you know, frankly, depending on how a question is asked and what state laws are being put in place in which state and how much information people have, their opinions really change.

And Danielle, one of the things that you've repeatedly raised, you cover this issue a lot, we've talked about it a lot. And is that when you're thinking about public opinion and polling and where people are, this has been generally a hypothetical issue for so many people, not all people because a lot of states have kind of made this more restrictive over over the years, but it's generally hypothetical.

But if this ruling goes into place, this is something that would drastically affect millions of people's lives.

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