There is literally 0 chance the area I live in will be blue. Does me going out and voting actually do anything besides add to the popular vote tally?

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    4 months ago

    I know my vote probably isn’t going to matter (thanks, Obama Electoral College)

    Unironically we can assign some blame to Obama…

    In 08 he had the opportunity to “save” the DNC. Instead he viewed the entire concept as outdated and ignored the party, instead handling everything internally on his team

    If Obama (or more recently Biden) had worked on the DNC and tried to build it up after Hillary’s people burnt it all down (once in 08, again in 16) we wouldnt have had to suffer thru trump and would be seeing the end of a.progressive presidents second term right now.

    If he’d have done that and lived up to 08 campaign promises, then there probably wouldn’t be any “red states” left by now.

    Obama didn’t break the party, but he had a chance to fix an already broken party and instead just ignored it. We’re still paying for it

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      Holy mental backflips to change talk about the electoral college to talk about the DNC and act as if they’re the same.

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      This post is kind of like when somebody who doesn’t know anything about cars starts throwing out words like carburator, transmission, and alternator because they know those are car things, but they have no idea how to use them in the context of how they are actually relevant.

      It’s hard to begin to know how to tackle correcting anything because the amount of effort it would take to unweave and reconstruct the kernels of truth is like trying to extract an egg out of a fully baked cake.

      This is probably overly harsh considering the slant of the post is absolutely in the right spirit, the analysis is just completely broken.

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      4 months ago

      Will you just stop man? Jesus fucking Christ with the “everything is the fault of democrats” bullshit.

      Be less obvious.