From your story it makes sense. While they need those benefits to survive, they know things should be much better. It sounds like they are voting in the Hail Mary chance that things could actually be improved. Possible short term pain for an eventual improvement.

In this case it’s going to be long term pain for the woman in the article. A desperate woman who wanted to carry a child more than anything and had that dashed by the decision her and millions other made

Nether candidate would have made her life better. The current one made it much worse.