Here you can watch a Republican candidate for the senate in 2020 saying some things that would have been controversial 100 years ago and are downright bonkers today.
The interview speaks for itself. Please listen the entire minute of it, there various gems there that would have made my grandfather (born in 1914) cringe if he was alive today.
Sidestepping for the time the hilari-tragic comment, let's dive to the 2020 numbers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren...ctoral_history
In the primaries for who Delaware Republicans would put on the ballot, Mrs Christianotaliban got 57% of the vote!. 30,700 Republicans in Delaware put the effort to tune in the primaries, and decided they prefer THAT woman as their candidate for the senate coming 2020.
OK, perhaps the other guy was ... well, I don't know. Frankly few things come to mind that could top her. But let's assume he was Saddam's advisor during the Kurdish genocide, with trips to Rwanda to advise the Hutus how to deal with the Tutsis in the mid 90s.
Election day. The big names (Trump and Biden) have their big contest while much less interesting but quite important elections for senator take place in Delaware. Now, as far as I know you can vote R for PotUS and D for senate. Or not vote for the senate. Not to mention, Delaware was like +15% Democrats, you more or less know where the electors would go so may as well pick a decent senator.
Expecting to see that woman get perhaps 80,000-100,000 votes (those 30,700 Zealots + some others that had no idea who is who) I found out to my astonishment that Lauren Witzke got OVER 180,000 votes!
Putting a crazy woman that spews what you see in that video and has those political views just moved 4% of the Republicans to the Democrats. Just 4%. And some of that may have been "no-Trumpers" actually. Not people saying "No, I actually don't think LGBT people are possessed and demonic, I will vote for the other guy."
Putting a raving lunatic there, moved the barrier by Just 4%
What I think it happened:
From the 186,000 people that voted for her, perhaps 50,000 people knew what she believed. The other 136,000 people probably couldn't tell their candidate for senate was or what she believed and have not spent 10 minutes to google the person they voted for. They saw the "R" and voted by party.
It is astonishing that 37% of Delaware voted for this person. And it actually gets worse:
If she was running in a red state, one that is usually R+10 or something... there was a VERY good chance that she would have won!
The Republican primary people chose her and from the moment she got the R, her qualifications, opinions, stance, personality would play A MINOR role!
What do you think folks? Am I reading things wrong here? Or the impact of a politician's actual credentials, qualifications, opinions, sanity etc is minor (Pushing perhaps a 4% to the other side in extremely bad cases) ?
And what do you think of the political opinions of this nice person?