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This article presents an interesting theory: the reason why GOP doesn't want a stimulus before the election is due to a distortion in the way our democracy works, specifically the US #Senate. In this particular upcoming election, due largely to gerrymandering no doubt, most GOP senate seats are safe from Democrats. But what #GOP senators fear the most is being primaried. So this is how the incumbants circle the wagons-- they can point to their gop challengers as treasonous for supporting "Blue State bailouts". An absurd argument even among the larger republican population, but i guess it could stick in weirdly gerrymandered ad-saturated extremist districts.
@mettaben gerrymandering may play a role, but there is also simply a massive cultural divide between rural and urban areas.