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Marius25

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14. All the Republicans who got re-elected enabled Trump

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Mon Nov 9, 2020, 04:01 PM

Nov 2020

non-stop and let him be so horrible and destroy the country.

It just proves that Republican voters, even the ones that hate Trump, or still awful people because they keep voting for other awful people.

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I don't think it's a mystery at all that the Trump defeat didn't extend down ballot. [View all] LAS14 Nov 2020 OP

Most of them are also horrible and need to defeated. Big Blue Marble Nov 2020 #1

As much as we do not like it and wanted them to cast a full Democratic ballot, that isn't realty. LizBeth Nov 2020 #2

That would be cool if we didn't have earth splitting horrible polling saying the opposite. No outher uponit7771 Nov 2020 #3

It was all, or virtually all, BainsBane Nov 2020 #6

+1, and it wasn't just that they were wrong they were outside of the MOEs to by a wide margin ... uponit7771 Nov 2020 #16

Right. A factor could be that a lot of straight dem ballots were thrown out or that wiggs Nov 2020 #7

Right, at minimum the pollsters owe America an explanation ... a truthful one. uponit7771 Nov 2020 #17

I don't know about the polling in other countries, but I think the polling discrepancy... LAS14 Nov 2020 #9

I do know enough about polling in other countries that they're not this off for this long tilting uponit7771 Nov 2020 #18

There may also have been Dems BainsBane Nov 2020 #4

True. Not a small number, I'd guess. nt LAS14 Nov 2020 #10

The vote totals in my county hints... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2020 #5

Right. Easy to believe. nt LAS14 Nov 2020 #11

Recommended. H2O Man Nov 2020 #8

Also a heard a lot of first time voters who broker for Biden.... Happy Hoosier Nov 2020 #12

The human capacity for self delusion is very strong. It is a survival mechanism. Caliman73 Nov 2020 #13

All the Republicans who got re-elected enabled Trump Marius25 Nov 2020 #14

Right. But Republican voters wouldn't see it that way. nt LAS14 Nov 2020 #19

Massive amounts of gerrymandering had a lot to do with it, as well. GoCubsGo Nov 2020 #15

People like their own Representatives treestar Nov 2020 #20