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White evangelicals are the largest religious group in Alabama and West Virginia, where restrictions on abortion passed with 59 percent and 51 percent of the vote respectively. And that means the landscape for abortion policy in the United States may also be changing. Millennials are already more liberal in their leanings than any other generation. And over half of young Democrats (53 percent) in a related September poll say that abortion is a critical issue. The trends are different when it comes to the politics of White evangelicals. While White evangelicals’ have strong feelings about abortion, at least half of this group contends that other issues are just as important. Conservative positions on policies like immigration, climate change, government-sponsored health care, and tax reform are emerging in place of traditional “religious voter” issues. In contrast, religious groups that lean more Democratic—the religiously unaffiliated and black Protestants — are more convinced that the judge will vote to overturn Roe (more than half of the former and two-thirds of the latter). In part because white evangelicals have broadened their agenda and abortion is only one of many policy targets for the group. At the same time, increased threats to abortion access are bringing about a more concentrated focus on abortion by Democrats and leading to evolving opinions of millennials on this issue.

Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. And if you missed it earlier this week, here’s our conversation on how fear is playing on the campaign trail. Readers from all across the country wrote in last week to tell us about the political issues you and your neighbors would like to hear more about in the final days of the campaign. (By the way, more of you wrote in from California than any other state. Boston wants to build a bridge to an island that houses a now-dormant addiction center. But when it comes to Tennessee, I’m a Memphis guy. But Memphis is also rib town. Do you agree with Jonathan’s favorites? And read Jonathan’s story: A Changing Tennessee Weighs a Moderate or Conservative for Senate ____________________ Today in live polling: California and Utah Image As the election nears, The Times’s live polling project is talking to voters in some of the closest races. Today, Nate Cohn and the Upshot team highlighted a few polls happening right now: Through 421 respondents in Utah’s Fourth District, it’s a very narrow lead for Ben McAdams against the Republican incumbent, Mia Love.

Thousands of protesters, among them victims of sexual assault, have descended upon the US Capitol with a desperate final appeal to lawmakers to reject embattled supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The demonstrations began early Thursday afternoon, one day before the US Senate is poised to take its first vote on the judge’s nomination to America’s highest bench. Many protesters and activists had traveled to the nation’s capital from across the country. “It’s time for women to be heard,” said Karen Bralove, an alumnus of Holton-Arms, the all-girls preparatory school Ford attended in the early 1980s when she alleges Kavanaugh attempted to rape her. The reaction to the FBI report fell firmly along partisan lines, and the Republicans are in the majority in both houses of Congress, but those who took to the streets said they weren’t giving up hope just yet. The crowd roared at the news that Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat facing an uphill re-election battle in conservative North Dakota, had announced her opposition to Kavanaugh. Many spread out banners and sat on the floor, then were put in plastic handcuffs by law enforcement and led away. “Today I was arrested protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a man who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault,” she wrote on Twitter. “Men who hurt women can no longer be placed in positions of power.” Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) Today I was arrested protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a man who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. pic.twitter.com/nnwq1O4qk3 October 4, 2018 Actress and comedian Amy Schumer, who is known as a campaigner for gun control and is involved with the Time’s Up movement against sexual violence and harassment – and is a cousin of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer – was also reportedly detained.