Excellent reporting in The New Republic by my old friend Sarah Blustain on John McCain's real record on abortion rights. Over the course of his career, McCain has cast 130 choice-related votes, and he's voted against the pro-choice position on 125 of those.
Yet, naturally, this isn't really what most people who know anything about McCain and abortion know. What they know is that in 1999-2000, when he was running against the GOP establishment, he was making a bunch of mealy-mouthed noises about how Roe v. Wade should be preserved with all its imperfections, and so on. Blustain cites one poll in which 36% of the women supporting McCain identified themselves as strongly in support of Roe. Presumably most of them don't know McCain's real views.
Another task for camp Obama, which has been slow to define McCain. But a great piece of reporting that's worth a read.
