Walker? Oz? Lake? Vance? Mastriano? DeSantis? That ANY of these vile people has

[markodochartaigh]

15. There are separate issues here

I grew up gay in the reddest part of Texas a half century ago. At that time a lot of people whose grandparents had probably happily taken their children to lynching parties or told stories about how they had massacred Native Americans were trying not to say the quiet part out loud. And I think that the majority of corporate Republicans and Democrats in the big cities on the coasts gradually forgot that the quiet part even existed. But the problem with cancer is that it doesn't go away if you ignore it. Those candidates might have "been booed off" any political stage with national exposure, but in churches and on local political stages in many areas those candidates would have been celebrated.

As for the polls, the new issue is that younger people are increasingly probably less represented simply because they don't answer the calls of the pollsters and the pollsters haven't figured a way around that yet. But also this election there are apparently a lot of low quality polls being aggregated the last few days into the mix. Perhaps this is so that Republicans can have one more talking point to discredit the election results. Like so many other government programs that they get their hands on, the Republicans malign it, suck it dry, run it into the ground, and then dance on its grave.