http://yes-justice.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] yes-justice.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] politicartoons2013-07-03 09:33 am
liliaeth: (R exhume)

[personal profile] liliaeth 2013-07-03 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I never get why anyone who earns less than a million a year would vote republican. It's not like they have anything to gain from any republican policy.

[identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com 2013-07-03 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Because of all the jobs created by obstructing access to abortion and women's health services?

/don't have a clue either

[identity profile] bonesnapdeez.livejournal.com 2013-07-03 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Because they hate minorities and women and want to see them oppressed.

[identity profile] peristaltor.livejournal.com 2013-07-03 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Because they're being used. First they are threatened that their morality is under assault (which is nonsense, but hey), then the GOP comes riding to their rescue. The result:

While Christian conservatives with high incomes are more likely to vote for Republicans than their poorer counterparts, evangelicals "tip" to the Republican Party at a much lower income level than do other voters—about $50,000 lower, according to statistical analysis. Put another way, an evangelical voter with $50,000 in annual income is as likely to be a Republican as a nonevangelical voter with $100,000 in annual income. In a country where the typical household income is around $50,000, this is hug effect, and it means that Republicans attract far more support from lower-and middle-class voters than they would otherwise.

(Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Simon & Schuster, 2010, pp. 148-149, I underlined for emphasis.)

[identity profile] telemann.livejournal.com 2013-07-04 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Texas districts are so heavily gerrymandered against Democrats.

[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com 2013-07-04 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
They're willing to sell themselves out economically for their morality. Democrats earning over $50Kpa do the same.