Well, in Vermont it happens all the time, the Republican Governor won overwhelmingly against a Progressive candidate, the 2 years before, over a Democrat, he is considered the most popular Governor in the country, and yet the majority of the voters also vote for Bernie, Welch, and now Balint, for Congress. True, the Repub Governor is not a MAGA, but he is old school New England Repub. I blame politics for people losing their minds. People vote on issues, and the abortion issue was a big one this time around. Trump knew that, he has even mentioned it a few times, that banning abortion would be a death knell for many GOP politicians. I am personally against it, for religious reasons, but once you put religion into politics, there is a risk that things like this will happen. I, for one, am not going down the road of thinking everytime "my side" does not win, it is fraud. It is hard for people to adjust to something that has been practiced legally since the 1970's to suddenly become illegal. Of course there will be a backlash. Dems have put millions of dollars into pro choice candidates. Those of us who are pro life celebrated too early, there is a huge majority of secular, atheist voting populace who voted for this one thing, I think we went too fast, we cannot monitor someone elses soul. Protect the unborn by making it illegal for our taxes to support government funded abortion clinics, yes. But these politicians who were declaring to make all of it illegal have gone too fast, in my opinion. And some of the conservatives have even declared that they would outlaw birth control, c'mon now! There just is not enough support for that, no matter how you cut it. It was not the time to take stands on these personal decisions, and I really think the border issue would have over whelmed the Democratic candidates if not for the abortion issue.
Well, in Vermont it happens all the time, the Republican Governor won overwhelmingly against a Progressive candidate, the 2 years before, over a Democrat, he is considered the most popular Governor in the country, and yet the majority of the voters also vote for Bernie, Welch, and now Balint, for Congress. True, the Repub Governor is not a MAGA, but he is old school New England Repub. I blame politics for people losing their minds. People vote on issues, and the abortion issue was a big one this time around. Trump knew that, he has even mentioned it a few times, that banning abortion would be a death knell for many GOP politicians. I am personally against it, for religious reasons, but once you put religion into politics, there is a risk that things like this will happen. I, for one, am not going down the road of thinking everytime "my side" does not win, it is fraud. It is hard for people to adjust to something that has been practiced legally since the 1970's to suddenly become illegal. Of course there will be a backlash. Dems have put millions of dollars into pro choice candidates. Those of us who are pro life celebrated too early, there is a huge majority of secular, atheist voting populace who voted for this one thing, I think we went too fast, we cannot monitor someone elses soul. Protect the unborn by making it illegal for our taxes to support government funded abortion clinics, yes. But these politicians who were declaring to make all of it illegal have gone too fast, in my opinion. And some of the conservatives have even declared that they would outlaw birth control, c'mon now! There just is not enough support for that, no matter how you cut it. It was not the time to take stands on these personal decisions, and I really think the border issue would have over whelmed the Democratic candidates if not for the abortion issue.