The issue focused largely on Iowa voters who indicated they voted for Barack Obama but voted for Mitt Romney because they liked Obama more than Romney. Those voting for Romney supported abortion restrictions that expanded Medicaid coverage for Planned Parenthood clinics and eliminated Obamacare subsidies for employer-provided insurance plans that covered contraception and sterilization services. Those voting for Obama favored exceptions for rape victims and incest victims and eliminated protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals from workplace discrimination and workplace retaliation.

Republicans seized on those shifts as proof that Democrats actually