It's not that simple, but a good point anyway

I don't think that it's remotely plausible to think that concessions will end conflicts about abortion. Incremental regulations of abortion are part of a very conscious, longer-term strategy to re-criminalize abortion in as many jurisdictions as possible. Such compromise legislation may not encourage anti-choice mobilization per se, but nor is there the slightest reason to believe they will make the conflict over abortion go away.

This isn't merely hypothetical: the Supreme Court has explicitly permitted a broad array of abortion regulations since 1992, many states and the federal government have enacted at least some of them, and yet the pro-life movement remains powerful enough to have a veto over Republican presidential candidates. It is naive to believe that the pro-life movement would vanish if it were given even more ground. But this has nothing to do with concessions showing weakness; rather, it's a function of the fact that there's a significant pro-life minority in this country, and as long as abortion is legal, there is no magic formula that could make them go away.

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How boring

That said, his win is also a win for everyone who admires boring, everyday competence. Obama picked competent people to advise him and those competent people helped him run a killer campaign. They were smart, organized, calm, unified, focused, innovative, flexible...in short, everything that the McCain campaign was not. (Ditto Team Hillary.) And while there is a certain romance to the idea of a candidate running a by-the-seat-of-his pants campaign fueled by chutzpah and a willingness to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks--the model that so obviously appealed to Team McCain's image of itself as scrappy and unorthodox--the idea of a president who would govern in that way gives me the willies.

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