2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Will Americans overlook their deeply held conviction that he’s a jerk?" [View all]DFW
(54,341 posts)But then 42% of American voters will blindly vote Republican even if their candidates are Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer.
This is why they are working so hard on voter disenfranchisement in Democratic districts. There are some voters (not as many as they have) that will also reliably vote Democratic. If they can nullify those Democratic votes, they have an advantage we don't, as we do not go into wealthy wards thinking up schemes how to disqualify their votes. We do not hire thugs to scare voters away from the polls, and we do not hire sleazy programmers to arrange robocalls telling people that the election is a day later than it really is.
Republicans could hold a deep conviction that their candidate is a child molester, a tax evader, a serial killer and a drug smuggler. As long as he has an "R" before his name, they will vote for him, blindly and gladly, convinced they did the right thing. After all, Charles Manson is white with a WASP name. "Barry" is not, and that's all that matters to them.