Re: 2020 Democratic Challengers IV: Culling the Herd
I'm providing context because without it the number itself is essentially meaningless. There's always gonna be fringe people in any voting population that votes in a way that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I wouldn't even doubt there was some (small) percentage of Kasich/Cruz/whoever voters that voted for Hillary over Trump. This happens in every primary and it happened in far greater numbers in 2008 with a more establishment dem candidate.
The guy never found a war he didn't support and this was while we were already in two forever wars, his answer to a tanked economy was austerity, and he brought on Palin who is a racist buffoon as his VP all the while using racist dog whistles toward the end of his campaign implying Obama had links to terrorists or took money from Palestinian voters. This is all pretty "far right" by any reasonable metric, he didn't use as much fascist rhetoric as Trump but the Republicans used to be more subtle about these things. He also voted with Trump 83% of the time and only voted against him on healthcare either for personal reasons or because the bill wasn't crazy enough for his liking depending on which version you believe.
Originally posted by dxmnkd316
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McCain (perceived to be a moderate,right Rep) meant going half as far to either end of the spectrum.
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