Amanda Roberti, PhD

Assistant Professor of Poli Sci at SFSU. Expert on abortion politics, policy & law; women & politics; and US states. 🤌🏼Last name pronounced 🚣🏼‍♀️🦜.

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

My grad course in gender and elections is one day a week during a kind of awkward time 4-6:45. So I’m baking a little treat for every class I can. Today we learned about political parties and the recruitment of candidates, and I brought in classic chocolate chip cookies!

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

I’ll be leaving Twitter for other platforms. Please follow me there instead. @profamandaroberti.bsky.social

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

@HeslipLuke And misogynoir.

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

I hope measure K passes in SF. I lived right next to the great highway and it was constantly closed because of shifting sand. It’s inevitable.

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

Is the election still rigged?

[Mary Tuma @TumaTime]

BREAKING: A *rare* abortion rights win in Texas – voters in the conservative city of Amarillo have voted AGAINST an abortion travel ban that would have empowered residents to sue anyone who "aids and abets" abortion access across state lines.

Bkgrnd: https://t.co/zo0KKBZReE

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

@HeslipLuke Me too. I get one more day for things to percolate.

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

And Colorado!

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

Maryland and New York passed their repro rights initiatives!

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

This is wonderful (though also depressing it took so long).

[CAWP @CAWP_RU]

Angela Alsobrooks (D) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) will be the first Black women to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Senate.

[Vote YES on Prop 1 - NYEqualRights @yesonprop1ny]

WE DID IT! #Prop1 has passed!

NY's constitution will now protect our reproductive freedoms, including abortion, and protect every New Yorker from government discrimination, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, pregnancy status, disability status, or whether someone is LGBT.

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

Huge!

[The Election Center @ElectionCenter_]

Projection:
Democrat Angela Alsobrooks is the Projected Winner in the Maryland Senate Election. She will defeat Republican Larry Hogan.

Democratic Hold

#ElectionDay #Election2024 #MDSen

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

Florida abortion initiative failed only because of the ridiculously high threshold. Only in FL can 43% win over 57%.

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

I just met Mayor Willie Brown! I didn’t get a picture though because of course I’m a spaz around political icons.

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

This is why you heard a lot of backtracking from GOP candidates on their abortion stances, or even just silence on the issue. And it’s not just Dobbs that has made abortion rights popular. Similar initiatives have an excellent track record of passing.

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

Happy Election Day! I’m going to be watching the 11 ballot initiatives in ten states on abortion rights. (Nebraska has two: one to ban abortion starting in the second trimester, the other to establish the right to abortion until viability).

[Amanda Roberti, PhD @ProfARoberti]

What has happened since Dobbs is every initiative protecting or establishing rights has been passed, and every one limiting has failed. Voters have also rejected elected officials who were against abortion. Abortion is popular, y’all.