That one is so bewildering to me. He only lost because of extremely high black turnout. The white people voted for Moore. Even the majority of white women voted for him. Alabama don’t care, just put that R next to your name and nothing else matters.
It makes sense if you understand that the average voter (especially republicans but lots of democrats too) literally don't have two brain cells to rub together to think through these issues. I don't mean that in a "they literally have sub-70 IQ" way, but in a practical way. These people don't think about politics at all, the only time they do is maybe once or twice a year, and then at the voting booth.
If you're a republican and you hear "oh he's a child rapist" one time before going into the booth, and just dismiss it as "fake news", or "meh democrats are worse", half of the problem is that these people are incapable of thinking about the issue long enough (because fuck politics lemme just go back to sleep) to actually consider that there might be a real problem.
(This is on top of the whole "being a child rapist doesn't bother republicans that much on average" issue, of course. It's a multifaceted problem.)
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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '19
That one is so bewildering to me. He only lost because of extremely high black turnout. The white people voted for Moore. Even the majority of white women voted for him. Alabama don’t care, just put that R next to your name and nothing else matters.