Prescott Valley, Arizona Correspondent — Dobbs returned the core policy choice to the states.

Trump has taken a more restrained federal position than many in his party preferred, treating the question as largely settled at the state level. The alternative seeks to re-nationalize it through federal legislation.

Voters who wanted the decision returned to the states already have that outcome. Further federalization is neither necessary nor stable.

I’d note that this is on our ballot here today as a state measure, which is the mechanism working as the decision intended.

Wheeling, West Virginia Correspondent — The Court moved the issue back to the states and Trump accepts that framework more clearly than the other side.

Significance will vary enormously by voter. The realistic federal role is now limited, and attempting to re-nationalize will keep the conflict permanently elevated.

Bismarck, North Dakota Correspondent — Dobbs sent it to the states. Trump largely accepts that. The other side wants to nationalize it again.

Myrtle Beach Correspondent — The issue is mostly at the state level now and Trump treats it that way. That’s the more stable position.

Long Island, New York Correspondent — Dobbs sent the fight downstairs, and downstairs is where statutes live. National campaigns will try to drag it back up, because up is where the fundraising is.

The realistic federal limits are narrower than either campaign advertises. Neither candidate gets a continental statute without a House, a Senate, and sixty votes, and neither has a plausible path to that.

So voters weighing this should understand they’re mostly voting on posture rather than on outcome, and the outcomes will continue to be decided in state capitals and, increasingly, at the ballot box in states that permit it.

Weight it if it’s your conscience. Don’t pretend a president is a Congress.

Tyler, Texas Correspondent — Texas will write Texas law. That’s a country rather than a temple.

Significant for some voters and not a reason to unsee everything else on the ballot. The realistic federal limit is less than the advertising claims in both directions.

I vote the border and the Court that sent the argument to a legislature.

Cheyenne, Wyoming Correspondent — Let the legislature work. One ticket will. One will try to take it back to a national statute.

I pick the legislature. Weight: real, and not the whole cup.

Knoxville, Tennessee Correspondent — Kitchen tables here already had the argument and now they have a statute.

I won’t nationalize the table to please a network. Federal limits are smaller than the volume of the advertising, and volume is a machine rather than a reason to flip the rest of a ballot.