Ted Cruz cited this research when he said most violent criminals are Democrats. Now the researchers say he’s wrong.

You can't be more wrong. It's about half and half on poor people's voting habits. It's no secret that a party that only caters to the 1 percent wins elections from the mass number of hillbilly voters they get. I'm sorry but any party that has media outlets preaching about nascar, guns, religion, and whites are great let's keep it that way etc. than they are only catering to the dumb who will blindly follow a party because they talk about click bait topics instead of addressing the needs of the people within the party. You see republicans are always talking a about click bait topics so the ill informed voters don't catch on to what they really want. You should see how funny it is seeing all these idiot hicks lose health care in my state. Everyone knew a tea party governor would take away health care. But all the republicans voted for him because he ran ads saying his opponent supported Obama. Well since republicans are the less educated ones they vote for a man who doesn't even support them. Now in my state republicans are literally crying and soon gonna be dying over the ill-informed choices they have made. These voters also are so dumb our state had to change the name of Obamacare because our citizens won't use something with his name in it. (Hence why they were to dumb to realize why our health care system was being taken away.) so not only have I finally been able to witness the stupid voters of the Republican Party roll around in their own shit, but it also showed me that it's not just Kim Davis who is stupid in my state, it's literally the majority of the state. I seriously can't even put into words how pathetic a party has to be to blindly vote for someone then to bitch and cry when they are elected because you were to stupid to listen to his plans. Also far left news sources give facts. If you watch Fox News it's nothing but things to scare citizens because republicans desperately need the public scared to win and yet stuff done. Hence why we talk about Muslims none stop now because of that shooting. But fox seems to be ignoring the fact that weeks before that a crazy man shot up CO springs. The reason behind that is the doctor working there went on Fox News to talk about the misconceptions of abortion and was met with reporters calling him a baby killer and more. Weeks later that doctor was attacked and fox doesn't even apologize they just move on to the next shooting so their idiot supports don't realize the news they watch creates monsters.

Also not to mention things like meth use is higher in red states and red areas.

Republicans are more like to own guns. Doesn't mean you will commit a crime. But you all have the NRA backing you and they do more to hurt gun rights than to help them.

Republicans are more likely to have delusional thoughts. (Religion, war on Christmas, climate change being fake, etc.) might not seem like much but the crazies seem to be the ones doing a lot of killing.

Granted you republicans are gonna comment and be like you are making assumptions about republicans. But sadly I'm not. It would be assumptions if this shit wasn't talked about daily on the media outlets for the right. It's not assumptions if your media has to talk about religion, war is great, apple pie, baseball, and climate change is false. If these are assumptions then why is it all the media talks about for your party. Like I said republicans can't win parties with ideas. They have to use fear to get votes. It's what happen in my state and now hundred of thousands are gonna lose health care. Sadly most those people voted for the man who said he would take it away. If that isn't stupid than you guys have an odd definition of stupid.

Also not saying both parties don't have criminals. Of course both do. Hell I can even think of past politicians for both parties who were criminals. But to hypothesize that democrats has more criminals isn't even a reasonable hypothesis. If anything most the criminals democrats have on there side can't even vote because they probably are felons who served time for a minor drug charge and wants a party who pushes for less drug enforcement. But it's a stupid hypothesis because if any republican can't tell they only win elections from the stupid voters than they are stupid themselves. Like I said in my state the republicans voted because they saw an ad that said "Conway supported Obama. He can't be trusted." Now they are losing health care and crying about it. That is stupid on all accounts. And this is literally the Republican Party every election. Use scare tactics then the smear ads will only talk shit instead of mentioned facts or plans to change the world. It's not a secret that a party that only supports the 1 percent wins elections from the votes from the ill informed. See the thing is poor people are like drug addicts. The democrats truly care for them and want to help them out at all cost. We try to let them know we are here for them. But then they turn on the drug of Fox News and start to bitch and moan over everything, including the people trying to help them because fox says they will take all your guns away (again another scare tactic, no one, not even Obama, has said let's take all guns away. More proof the Republican Party is stupid.) see how this is like a drug. How are we suppose to help people if they constantly have false views of the world and don't even fully comprehend things because the media is depicting false things. I mean hell you guys also are the ones who thought bush was going after bin laden. Even though, you know, we were in the wrong country. But yet all you all believed it was a war over what happen on 9/11. If it was a war over that bush would have killed bin laden instead of going to the wrong country. I mean Obama did kill bin laden with information bush had. So yeah if anything I would bet the facts actually show that more criminals vote republican than democrat. But like I said everyone has criminal supporters. I mean hell look at Bernie sanders. That one AIDS drug guy who bought that wu tang album wanted to donate to Bernies campaign but he declined the offer. It's almost as if criminals have their own opinions and shape their political views separate of that of their criminal lives.

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