Genuinely honest question. They were completely red for the presidential election, but elected a Democratic governor again. How is this possible?

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    Because the Democrat ran against a guy who called himself a black Nazi and said he wished slavery was legal so he could own slaves. And said so on porn sites. And that was the printable stuff. A lot of it involved weird sexual shit and fantasies about his wife’s sister.

    The real question is how he still got 40% of the vote.

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      The real question is how he still got 40% of the vote.

      I truly believe the only reason he didn’t get elected is that he did all that weird shit while being a Black man.

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          Roy moore was taking teenagers on “dates” as an 30yo district attorney…

          Black dude made tasteless shit posts…

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        Josh Stein (the winning Democrat) has been a popular vote for years now in other local races. It wasn’t a given win, but he had a lot of backing historically. Robinson hasn’t been popular as Lieutenant Governor, and his latest stuff didn’t help. But the case another brought up is how he still got 40%. And that’s after Trump cut ties. The rural area amazes me sometimes.

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        As I said to my Mom earlier today: White nazis? That’s no problem for them. Black nazis? That’s where they draw the line.