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dahwhat t1_ivo3dbk wrote

I'll get downvoted for this but, IMO is because the GOP has become an extremist organization that doesnt realize how actually fucking stupid they sound.

I used to be republican, but there is no way I can support such bullshit.

(That being said I thought sununu has done a good job with certain things, and he got my vote yesterday)

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Mynewadventures t1_ivo4r7r wrote

I like to say that the Republican Party turned me into a liberal without me doing a damned thing.

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DocMcCracken t1_ivo6e30 wrote

This. I was right leaning when they were smaller goverment, less goverment in your life. It is not what they are now. All the projection and power grabs. I realized it sometime during Bush's Presidency. What is offered now isn't actual solutions, just peddling fear and shitting the bed.

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Mynewadventures t1_ivo6hoy wrote

All of that plus the Christian bullshit. I'm not a Christian.

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ShortUSA t1_ivp3v2p wrote

I am a Christian, but don't want US governments peddling religion. This is not a Christian county, this is a country welcome to all religions, atheists, etc. None of that has a place in government.

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Low-Head-1493 t1_ivochv8 wrote

Leavitt’s entire campaign seemed based on fear mongering and the fact that she had been a Trump lackey. Not too compelling!

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InstantKarma71 t1_ivo4v76 wrote

Warren Rudmam, John E. Sununu, Judd Greg … Don Bolduc.

TBH, Shaheen and Hassan win because they sound more like your grandad’s Republicans than Democrats. Shaheen and Hassan both opposed raising the minimum wage, for example.

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Dramatic_Mechanic815 t1_ivopiti wrote

Lol this is so true. US Democratic Party is closer to the UK’s Conservative Party than the GOP, which is frankly closer to UKIP.

When I lived in the UK, I voted with the UK Conservatives. In the US, it’s democrats.

GOP has gone way too far to the right. By extension, this makes democrats more center than left.

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lMickNastyl t1_ivp1z3y wrote

I gotta say I love how in the UK they savagely roast each other in the parliament.

I'd love for someone to call McConnell a blathering buffoon faced moron to his face while the Senate is in session.

Or someone call Nancy a vestigial old husk needing putting out to pasture.

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pahnzoh t1_ivotwfi wrote

They're also both gun grabbers and vote with the democrat party about 95% of the time. That whole "they're Republicans" thing isn't real.

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ShortUSA t1_ivp36ia wrote

If you wanna play here, and not just be patted on the head and put in a corner, you have to think just a little and not merely parrot talking points.

Case in point, you know most stuff passes with most representatives voting for it, largely unanimously, so even Republicans vote with Biden most of the time. Most stuff isn't controversial. You only hear about the controversial stuff. So 95% doesn't mean much, in fact I suspect it is higher.

No bills, none, zip, were brought to the floor for a vote that would grab anyone's guns. NH would hate that, but there you go mindlessly writing about gun grabbing. You're welcome for me trying to help you find a clue.

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