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queencallipygos (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} queencallipygos) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
And yet they keep voting for people who either are extreme, or who turn a blind eye to those who are.
I'd say that's more a problem of voter/media apathy about the party primaries.
I almost always vote for my party's primary, but -- there have been times I've almost missed it because I didn't even know when it was, because unless it's a really sexy election year, it doesn't get covered in the media. And I'm seriously in the minority -- in New York, only 11% of the eligible voters turned out for the 2010 primaries in their parties.
And that's not even getting into whether the guy I vote for in the primaries makes it. About 70% of the time, my choice in the primary loses.
Not hard for me to imagine that there are Republicans in similar straits as I. And if that's the case, I wouldn't consider those Republicans to be "turning a blind eye" to the extremists, because "but....I didn't vote for them in the primary! WTF?"
I'd say that's more a problem of voter/media apathy about the party primaries.
I almost always vote for my party's primary, but -- there have been times I've almost missed it because I didn't even know when it was, because unless it's a really sexy election year, it doesn't get covered in the media. And I'm seriously in the minority -- in New York, only 11% of the eligible voters turned out for the 2010 primaries in their parties.
And that's not even getting into whether the guy I vote for in the primaries makes it. About 70% of the time, my choice in the primary loses.
Not hard for me to imagine that there are Republicans in similar straits as I. And if that's the case, I wouldn't consider those Republicans to be "turning a blind eye" to the extremists, because "but....I didn't vote for them in the primary! WTF?"
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