Pro-Abortion Crowd Did Not Fare Well in Midterm Election

You'd think that given the big Dem win in the midterm elections that the pro-abortion crowd must have made a big impact. Not so. The group Emily's List, which exists primarly for the purpose of funding pro-abortion candidates, won only 2 of 19 races that it funded (from Political Wire):

The latest Evans Novak Political Report notes that "considering the excellent year Democrats had in 2006 at all levels, a group that funds Democratic women who are pro-choice on abortion would have been expected to do well. That EMILY's List did so poorly, despite the trend, provides yet another interesting confirmation that this election was a non-ideological confrontation between the two parties, decided mostly on the basis of a failed Iraq occupation and a corrupt Republican establishment. Voters in swing districts were not keen on abortion-focused candidates in 2006, even as they elected several pro-choicers."

"Of the 19 competitive House races in which EMILY's List backed and funded a candidate, only two won. This follows on the heels of the group's 2004 performance, in which it went three for 13 in head-to-head contests against the conservative Club for Growth."

"The only successful EMILY contenders for Republican seats were state Sen. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) -- who was heavily favored all along to win the seat of retiring Rep. Jim Kolbe (R) -- and New York attorney Kirsten Gillibrand, who won only after the late leak of a police report alleging that Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY) had choked his wife."

Pro-abortion is just not the winning issue that the Emily's list types would want you to believe.