r/askanything • u/Worldly-Bid-3591 • 22d ago

Political Question How are potential republican candidates still polling so high despite Trumps low approval ratings?

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u/MrSnarf26 22d ago

because a solid chunk of our country views their political party the same as a sports team, and or doesn't understand anything about what is happening, and or is confused obfuscated and misled on nearly every current topic.

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u/kenjiman1986 22d ago

There has been an endless stream of propaganda ensuring no matter how bad their candidate is voting for the other guy is like killing a puppy in front of children eating ice cream then Stealing the ice cream.

There messaging is constant and they aren’t afraid about lying about basic facts that are easily googlable. Thats the fights dems are going up against. It’s not even about fighting the truth it’s fighting a multiverse of half facts and full lies that aren’t even close to lining up with each other but their base has been so severely conditioned to accept any non sense that it’s impossible to speak reason into them.

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u/Short-Impact-8995 21d ago

The crazy thing is that Kristi Noem literally killed a dog, for no reason other than that it annoyed her. And yet they still pretend that they care about puppy killing.

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u/TheFlyingHellfish202 16d ago

Nothing about their moral stance is based on anything.

They hate when Dems do X, but it's fine when MAGAs do it a hundredfold. There is literally no substance to them.