Originally Posted by goober

The Republican coalition depends on people with widely divergent agendas basing their voting for candidates on single issues and ignoring the rest of the platform.
You get pro-choice people who want tax cuts voting Republican, because they never thought that abortion was actually threatened, you get pro-life Christians people voting Republican, and ignoring the un-Christian treatment of the needy that tax cuts necessitate.
This energizes the womans movement, by putting a womans issue front and center in this election cycle. This also elevates the importance of the pro-choice issue, and let's face it, tax cuts are a non-starter, the money is gone.
On the negative side, this may energize the pro-life forces for the GOP, except that the front running GOP candidates are either pro-choice or were recently.