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Author: William A. Galston

William A. Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha chair in the Brookings Institution’s governance studies program, where he serves as a senior fellow. Prior to January 2006 he was the Saul Stern professor and acting dean at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), and executive director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal, co-chaired by former Secretary of Education William Bennett and former Senator Sam Nunn. A participant in six presidential campaigns, he served from 1993 to 1995 as deputy assistant to President Clinton for domestic policy.
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It Wasn’t Just ‘the Economy Stupid’—It Was Abortion

Elaine Kamarck and William A. Galston

Most pundits insisted abortion wouldn’t drive many votes, but inflation would. How wrong they were.

If you put together the sheer size of the women’s vote, the intensity of the issue and the fact that, unlike inflation or the economy, the two parties have stark differences on the issue, you get a powerful driver of the vote.

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