Several abortion initiatives were on state ballots for the Nov. 5 election, and by a narrow margin, voters in two Midwest states, Nebraska and South Dakota, chose the pro-life options.

The Nebraska ballot had two competing questions.

Voters defeated a plan to enshrine the right to kill an unborn baby into the state constitution. The proposal, Nebraska Initiative 439, was opposed by 51 percent of voters, while 49 percent supported it. The initiative called for an amendment to the Nebraska Constitution giving “all persons,” not just women, “a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability, or when needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant patient, without interference from the state or its political subdivisions.”

The language of the measure did grammar gymnastics to avoid using the words “women” or “mother,” or “baby.”

The amendment defined “fetal viability” as the point in pregnancy when a doctor says the child could survive “outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures.”

While that was struck down, a life-affirming measure passed with 55 percent of the vote. Nebraska Initiative 434, the Prohibit Abortions After the First Trimester Amendment, amends the state constitution to say, “unborn children shall be protected from abortion in the second and third trimesters” except in cases of medical emergencies or pregnancies resulting from sexual assault or incest.

“Thanks to leadership from Sen. Pete Ricketts, Gov. Jim Pillen and GOP leaders, abortion industry lies were challenged and the radical implications of Initiative 439 were exposed while

Sure, “renowned Iowa pollster” J. Ann Selzer has been wrong before. But this kind of wrong in the polling business can leave a mark. 

Selzer grabbed a lot of headlines a few days before the election (and not just from her home newspaper and Democrat Party shill, the Des Moines Register) with the shocking poll she did tracking the political sentiments of Hawkeye State voters. The Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll conducted by Selzer showed Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ replacement presidential candidate, leading former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s presidential nominee, by 3 percentage points (47 percent to 44 percent) in deep red Iowa. 

It seemed insane, because it was. 

Not Seeing Red 

Iowa was called for Trump by The Associated Press less than two hours after the state’s polls closed. With an estimated 95 percent of the vote counted as of publication, Trump is clobbering by 14 percentage points (56.3 percent to 42.3 percent), according to the Washington Post.

Trump won Iowa by nearly 10 percentage points in 2016, and by about 8 points in 2020, according to The New York Times. 

While the “red wave” predicted ahead of the 2022 midterms did not hit nationwide, it did hit Iowa. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds easily won reelection, and Republicans seized control of all of the Hawkeye state’s House seats.

For the better part of a very long year, the first-in-the-nation caucus state showed Republicans from the start were firmly behind Trump. The former president outdistanced his nearest

Former President Donald Trump declared victory early Wednesday morning, after Wisconsin and Pennsylvania put him over the top in the race for the White House.

“Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said, referring to the summer attempt on his life that left him bloodied and left one supporter dead and two others injured.

Fox News projected Trump to win at least Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as Georgia and North Carolina, which gave him more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. He is the first to win the presidency in two non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892, setting him up to be the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

“This will truly be the golden age of America. That’s what we have, this is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again,” Trump said in his speech. “We’re gonna make you very proud of your vote.”

Trump was flanked by his family at his campaign victory party in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was joined by vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, who also made remarks.

“We just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America,” Vance said. “And after the greatest political comeback in American history, we’re going to lead the greatest economic comeback in American history.”

Trump also remarked on down-ballot races, which appear to give him a