Official 2016 USA Election Center: Trump/Sanders take New Hampshire

[Mr Khan]

sc94597 said:

Boutros said:

BraveNewWorld said:

Boutros said:
I don't know how you can vote Republican nowadays. They really come off as the bad guys honestly lol

That's because the Liberal media protrays them that way. They act exactly as Fox News does, but don't get ripped for it.

No one made up that they are opposed to abortion, same-sex marriage, gun control laws, etc....

Those things only matter so much but still.

The bolded is not a bad thing in the eyes of many Americans. In fact gun control laws have become less popular with newer generations. For example, in the 1950's the majority of Americans supported hand-gun bans, today only a very small minority (like 20%) support handgun bans. Not all Republicans oppose state-recognized same-sex marriage, and many are forfeiting that issue. Abortion is a different story, but that is a heated and controversial topic. Abortions have become stigmatized culturally, and even with outright bans fewer and fewer doctors are doing them. It seems to me that these perspectives are quite consistent with the beliefs of Americans. For that matter, Republicans are properly representing their constinuents. 

As a whole, Americans support sane gun control. Bans are indeed unpopular, but few outside of the militia crowd are opposed to wait periods and appropriate mental health and crime restrictions as well as closing the gun show loophole. Smart guns are also a popular idea held hostage by the militiamen.

There's blessedly less demand for abortion because more people are practicing safe sex nowadays.

The whole SSM thing has been forfeited in favor of all of this "freedom to discriminate" malarkey, however. They're just switching tactics.