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    85 months ago

    It’s gotta suck knowing you will still be voting for him in November.

    • @[email protected]
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      135 months ago

      Eh, I could live in one of the ~45 states where we already know what the result is…

      Everybody wants to act like we don’t know what votes mean these days. The sad truth is if you’re not in a battleground, it doesn’t matter who you vote for as president.

      Even 08 Obama that flipped a bunch of states, he already had it in the bag without them.

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        205 months ago

        Good thing there’s more than just a presidential race, then. In fact, you can vote in non-presidential races every year (depending on local elections). At the very least every two.

        Yeah, battleground states are important in presidential races… but every state matters in congressional and state/local races.

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          5 months ago

          Yep, there’s even elections in non presidential years!

          What’s unfortunate is with a Dem presidential candidate like Biden that people aren’t excited about, is it makes the down ballot races less likely to win in red states. 08 Obama was fucking huge in that respect, and I’m feeling old now that it’s apparently ancient history and no one remember.

          Hell, even just 2020 there was that effect because people wanted trump gone and Biden was still an unknown to most Dems nationwide.

          Lots of people believed last primary and the promised Biden made.

          It’s hard to get that goodwill back from voters.

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            55 months ago

            It’s hard to get that goodwill back from voters.

            Agreed. Most of these people don’t understand lots of people still remember the ways Democrats fucked us over during Obama’s term.

            • No public option in the ACA
            • Kid gloves for the financial sector while people were losing their homes
            • Huge surveillance expansion

            And more.

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      15 months ago

      I sure as fuck won’t. If your dog pisses on the floor and you give him a treat the dog’s going to think you wanted to piss on the floor again. That’s exactly what would happen if people re-elect Biden. Either start holding your own politicians accountable or quit punching at the people that are