How do you explain Trump losing to Biden? Is Trump less intelligent or a more terrible candidate than Biden?
In my opinion, you make the mistake of confusing voter intelligence with candidate intelligence, and confusing both of those with electoral intelligence.
If intelligence means simply voting for someone with a letter after their name, then conservatives are clearly less intelligent than Leftists in your model.
Has nothing whatsoever to do with the candidates or their level of intelligence.
Trump is more intelligent than Biden.
As I said already, Democrats will vote for Democrats no matter what.
Your opinion of what I am thinking is wrong.
Intelligence and policy matter to Republicans and flip floppers.
“If intelligence means simply voting for someone with a letter after their name, then conservatives are clearly less intelligent than Leftists in your model.”
There is also the factor that in many places there are just a whole lot more people who vote for the ‘D’ than the ‘R’ when equal percentages show up. All the Democrats have to do, really, is get out the vote in a lot of places, no cheating needed (not that they don’t, but it isn’t always cheating when they win, there are simply more of them in some cases).