Bathroom Insanity and the 2016 Race (Updated)

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In its latest assault on traditional Americans mores, federalism, the separation of powers, and common sense, the Obama administration is now claiming that a federal law passed more than 40 years ago (Title IX) somehow requires all public schools across America to provide access to bathrooms and sports teams based on whatever sex students want to say they are. In an otherwise fine account of the administration’s science-denying radicalism on this issue, one political analyst writes that the issue of transgender bathroom use “looks like a loser for conservatives with swing-state voters.” Really?‎

The source of this analyst’s claim is a lone poll, from CNN, that asked the following:

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