Reply #4: "Given the choice between a …" Republican and a Democrat who openly

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supports unpopular Republican policy, people will vote for the real Republican all the time.

"Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time"

It means that folks do not, in general, support Republican policy. Republican policy is very unpopular. So when a Democrat tries to run on enacting that unpopular policy, the Democrat will lose. But when a Republican runs for office, the folks who want that policy enacted assume that the Republican will enact the policy and the Republican can spend time convincing the folks who will be harmed by the policy that there is nothing to be worried about.

As to vote fraud before 2000, there may have been some vote fraud before 2000 against Democrats, but considering that these black box voting machines didn't come into play until 2000, I don't think vote fraud was the problem *before 2000*. Although I do think that Shrub probably beat Ann Richards via some vote fraud.