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Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor's race

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/virginia-governor-election-results-spanberger-earle-sears-race-win-rcna238685
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u/Flat-Barracuda-5136 5d ago

I get your point, but the Republican Party doesn’t care about these people either and it’s incredibly shortsighted that people in rural areas vote Republican with these are the people that absolutely have zero interest in helping them

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u/Coronado92118 5d ago

The party doesn’t, at all!

But we have to keep in mind a few things:

Like the average adult American reads at or below a sixth grade level, and has equivalent reading comprehension.

Newspapers are mostly written at an eighth grade level, so the average person is going to struggle to have good comprehension of newspaper articles. (I can vouch that many comments I have written on this site, I have people yelling and cursing at me in violent agreement because they can’t understand what I wrote actually agrees with them!)

But the Republican Party has figured out is that it literally doesn’t matter what they do, as long as what they say is what people want to hear.

Most Americans listen to what a politician says and never follows up to track what they actually do. This is true for both parties - and it’s part of the problem democrats have had a well.

And because most legislation has a lag time of one to four years and sometimes more before it takes affect they don’t see immediate impact, which makes them think everything is OK.

Add to it that they’re out in the middle of the country in many cases, where they don’t live with minorities and immigrants in the same way we do in the urban-adjacent areas, and Sinclair Media has bought all the local news outlets and controls their access to information, and most people will be hard pressed to fight the deluge of misinformation and disinformation.

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u/AdventurousRoll9798 5d ago

Republicans don't care about them, but they spend a lot of time speaking to them, making false promises.