I've been wondering if Republicans are worried about how many of their voters are dying of COVID?

[onecaliberal]

I wonder what effect it will have on elections?

[dutch777]

1. Me too. And will people that get it because they drank the Repub kool aid hate them for their bad

leadership on the issue.

[gldstwmn]

2. They sure don't seem to be worried

about it do they? It makes me wonder.

[captain queeg]

3. Those rethugs that die won't change an election due to their absence

But for each one that dies many others will look at them and decide the party has gone off the rails. Enough to matter? Guess we’ll see.

[RockRaven]

4. They just have to work harder on gerrymandering and voter suppression, no big deal...

They were going to do that anyway, just push a little harder now. No need to grow a conscience or admit error.

[unblock]

5. The more they are able to rig the elections, the less they care about actual voters

Their voting suppression methods tilt elections in their favor far, far more than the small relative partisan effect of voter deaths due to covid.

Besides, most of these deaths are in fairly-to-very red states anyway.

[moondust]

6. Show them this chart.

From Chris Hayes' show tonight:

Link to tweet

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(Chris explains that for various reasons the chart does not include Nebraska, Florida, Alaska, maybe others or counties with fewer than 10,000 residents.)

[Xolodno]

7. Don't think enough.

But the impact on the other hand. The polls may say they still support the usual GOP blab...and never will vote D. But how many will sit out the next election because they are pissed?

[roamer65]

8. Let the virus kill more of them.

Fuck em.