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Originally Posted by microbet
Misogyny is looking like a pretty big factor.
also this, which i believe has been linked here before (from 2008)-
https://www.salon.com/2008/11/03/racists_for_obama/
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A man canvassing for Obama in western Pennsylvania asks a housewife which candidate she intends to vote for. She yells to her husband to find out. From the interior of the house, he calls back, "We're voting for the ******!" At which point the housewife turns to the canvasser and calmly repeats her husband's declaration.
turns out racism is a factor of luxury in voting. now that obama saved the economy from disaster, unemployment is down and people are in better shape all over america, bigots everywhere could afford to gamble on the unqualified racist blowhard because they thought he'd look out for them and make life worse only for minorities, somehow. the rub is in the way that these people were portrayed in the media as "economically anxious/uncertain" when it was actually their relative stability that allowed them to gamble (usa#1, always bending over backwards to showcase the purity of the white soul)
they didnt know how he was going to bring back antiquated factory/manufacturing jobs to their little ****hole towns, or how forgoing cheap 3rd world labor for american jerbs was not going to increase the price of all the goods they buy, or how he was going to fix wage stagnation despite championing trickle down voodoo economic policies, or how we were going to have tremendous GDP growth without technological innovation and investment into renewable/clean energy sources, but they knew he was going to put the jackboot on the throats of minorities, so it was assumed that he'd look out for them because they're white. and now we see just how wrong they really were.