David Eichenbaum, a Democratic political consultant who is not working for anyone in this year's campaign, said abortion  is no longer the driving issue it once was, at least on the pro-choice side.  But, Eichenbaum said :  Sometimes an incident like this will do more to (energize) those who are pro-choice who otherwise might not consider that as an important an issue to go to the polls over.  
 Verb: energize
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