@ferricoxide @benroyce @RegGuy @DavidM_yeg @RoguePlayer

I can understand this attitude, but I think you have to take the Electoral College into account. In Massachusetts or California, what’s the point of either a Republican or Democrat going out to vote, unless there might be a lower office contest that was in doubt (I don’t remember if my Congress member nor members of the legislature had opponents, come to think of it)?

I think, in fact, you saw this in California: fewer voters turned out where the House Congressional seat was pretty assured, more voters turned out in Congressional districts where one’s vote mattered.

I guess both California and Massachusetts had referenda to vote on….

@lain_7 @ferricoxide @RegGuy @DavidM_yeg @RoguePlayer

why are you abrogating your social responsibility?

through your thinking blue states become purple states, purple states become red states, red states become blood

there's no excuses

none

you #vote

period

through that you *change* the electoral college. but we'll never change that if people don't fucking show up in force

exercises in excuse making is nothing but you rationalizing your own impotency

i do not share your impotency

@RegGuy @benroyce @lain_7 @ferricoxide @DavidM_yeg @RoguePlayer That’s the same election when I first voted. I was equally disappointed when Reagan won in 1980, and I likewise blame him for the long decline of American civilization—he taught voters that it is okay to be selfish.

@JosephMeyer The irony of my voting in 1976 is that it was a Republican man who went through the trouble to get me registered. I had moved and had not changed my registration. He said he'd help, and did. Things were so different in 1976.@benroyce @lain_7 @ferricoxide @DavidM_yeg @RoguePlayer