Love how the author makes the election all about their life story or some shit.
Reminds me of the liberals that supported anti lgbtq stuff or racist GOP policies and want all the credit in the world for becoming a lib
As it turned out, Bush was chosen by the Supreme Court as the vote was so close, particularly in Florida, though Gore won the overall popular vote.
What a clear and persuasive case for the power of voting in America.
I honestly don’t understand how you can look at a country where, regularly, the person with more votes doesn’t win and consider it a democracy. Like not even talking all the nitty gritty of voter suppression and gerrymandering or what have you, just straight up more votes still lose
an important part of American Democracy™ is the importance of rewarding disenfranchisement. the electoral college and districting systems award representative voting power based on the total population of your state/district, but is influenced only by actual votes cast. so if you lock up everybody in a state and ban your enemies from voting, you get all of their voting power anyway. and that includes prison populations.
the number of congressional districts that would have dissolved from outmigration but for a prison being built there to bolster the total human population is nonzero. a prison is like a little city in terms of funding and state power, but it’s even better because they can’t oppose your political project in any way.
this is the legacy of democracy designed by genocidal slavers.
Excuse the ignorance but you gotta be shitting me as per prison population counts for electoral college but they can’t vote
Although my prefrerrd candidate, Eugene McCarthy, won by far the largest percentage of the popular vote in the Democratic general primaries—approximately 3 million or 38.7% to Humphrey’s 161 thousand or 2.1% in a crowded field of candidates—Humphrey didn’t even bother to enter some of the state primaries. Nonetheless, party officials gave Humphrey the right to carry the Democratic banner as its presidential nominee.
It did this by awarding Humphrey the vast majority of overall delegates in the non-primary states, thereby bringing him over the top in terms of the number of delegates needed. Talk about “rigged elections”!
There’s also this. The entire thing is him describing the democrats as party that would prefer to loose by drifting to the right, rather than utilize its left flank.
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no, I do not “dislike” “both” candidates. I hate them
Should be a dunk tank post. Guess what brain genius withholding your GE vote in California had exactly 0 impact on the outcome, and given that it was done in protest of them rigging the primary is even more justified since if everyone did the same thing the Dems wouldn’t be pulling this bullshit 50 years later
Absolutely not, I’m voting for Claudia and Karina
Whew just got this last night on a tiktok comment. Just lol quite a lot. I honestly feel bad for them, they were trans and trying to belligerently get me to vote for Harris as if that will help the situation.
Wow. Can’t believe this one person not voting decided the 1972 and 2000 elections. What are the odds
And the scary part is, history tends to repeat itself. Please, for the love of God, vote to save democracy in the most important election of our lives.
