It is entirely possible for folks to have voted for Trump and not known a thing about his VP or his VP's policies, y'know. That's not much better, since it's uneducated voting, but I find it much easier to believe than the idea that, in a country where gay rights have been slowly-but-steadily pushing forward, more than half the country is practically salivating at the thought of torturing LGBTs.
Maybe I'm wrong.
ETA: To clarify, I'm not saying that there aren't people who feel that way, because unfortunately and obviously there's still plenty of bigotry out there.
Note the other part was not caring, Siru, and uneducated voting is just that, at the very least when it's not an issue that has particularly been covered up. Only so much difference between salivating at something like that and giving so little of a damn you're willing to elect pence, or someone that willingly chose him as a political partner.
I get the whole other considerations, other issues thing. They're there, they exist, definitely. Different pressures, different calls on your time, all sorts of stuff. Bein' uneducated on a subject ain't necessarily something you do out of malice. But there's lines you draw, and there's a message you send when you say to a person, however unintentionally, that that person's life, well being, and sanity, ain't that line. That you may have reasons you didn't notice the line was there ain't comfort worth the meaning.