• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Winning California by a lot of votes doesn’t matter if he loses Texas, Florida, Michigan, and Ohio.

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      9 months ago

      Don’t you guys love how 70% of the country just doesn’t matter because everyone already knows what they’ll be. So we get to only focus on a few of the most fucked ones to decide the election.

      I love the Electoral College, I love FPTP voting, I hate popular votes. This is okay. We’re gonna be okay. Everything is okay. Somebody please tell me it’s going to be okay.

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        9 months ago

        The world is more fucked up than it should be but it’s also mostly better than it’s ever been. There’s no guarantee that either of those things will continue to be true though. Did that help?

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        9 months ago

        If you’re in a state that you know will vote exactly the way you would (by such a large margin that it can do it even if everyone thinking like you stays home), check what local candidates and propositions and such are on the ballot and whether there are any of those where your voice needs to be heard.

        Of course, the answer might still be no - I’ve sat out elections in the past where I could see that my vote on every issue would just be running up the score on the side that had already won (and this did turn out to be correct). But it’s worth checking just to be sure. There’s more to elections than just congress and president.