Many people don’t vote with there heads.
Reminds me of the Trump voters in West Virginia who keep voting for Joe Manchin because he has a good line of crap pretending to be conservative and either don’t realize that a large majority in the senate has meaning or just doesn’t care.
Every commercial Manchin ran the last time emphasized he was a native son. Played football at WVU, he ever had Jerry West & a couple of other Mountaineer sport legends cut him a commercial! Morrissey is not a native son. (And please don’t point out Byrd & Rockefeller weren’t either, different era & political dynamic back then!) It also didn’t help that Morrissey was as exciting as a wet newspaper.