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Corrik posted...

@Suprak_the_Stud

Why do you think the house and presidential votals are different as they are and not closer?

In fact, more voted for the House Repubs than for even Trump himself.

I think Republicans are better at fielding local politicians than democrats are. The national Republican platform is off putting to a majority of voters and I think it is going to be very hard for a Republican politician to win the popular vote any time in the near future. It doesn't matter because they have the electoral college to protect them, but 50% do not like the Republican platform.

HOWEVER

Republicans are smart enough to know this. In Alabama, they field those crazy "GAY PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE YOUR KIDS WATCH RU PAUL" candidates. In Northern Illinois, almost all Republicans are socially liberal/moderate and fiscally moderate/conservative. They're competitive here and people will vote for that even though they hate Trump and basically any national Republican of note. To win the primary, you essentially have to court the Republican base which just isn't anywhere near the middle. Republicans are very good at finding moderate republicans though and running them where they should be run.

Democrats don't always do the same thing. It is hard to find an anti abortion democrat these days, and usually you may get a "well we don't support abortion but we don't want the government to limit it" which, as reasonable as that may sound to me, doesn't play well in Alabama. Jones almost lost to an actual literal pedophile because he was fairly liberal socially and moderate fiscally, which isn't what you want in Alabama. You'd want those two things switched.

I wold need to look more into this, obviously, but my gut instinct is Republicans are better at playing politics at a local level and don't care about it nationally because of the way the Senate is set up/the electoral college.
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