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So you don’t like Trump or Harris – here’s why it’s still best to vote for one of them
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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What a dreadful article. If you're not in a swing state, and you're in the minority, and you have been for the last 70 years, why do you think anything is going to change this time? Your vote never made a difference before and it almost certainly won't this time, either. Vote for whoever you want to vote for.
It's just embarrassing to write an article like this and forget about the electoral college.
You say that as if you don't realise that the electoral college is exactly why it can't possibly achieve anything to vote third party other than risk your least favourite candidate winning.
You act all high and mighty and snide and then completely miss the point. I'm not impressed.
What, you think it's snide to point out that a poorly written political article was poorly written? Jesus. All they had to do was mention that everything is extra complicated because of the electoral college. It would have added three or four sentences, and it would have made their article relevant and true.
Or maybe you had a problem with my wording. Do you think I should have been more delicate, to avoid hurting the author's feelings? (I don't think they're going to read my comments, but even if they did, the odds are good that they would care about my view about as much as you do.)
It's more what you were high and mighty about - you claimed that the article was missing the fact that there's an electoral college, whilst yourself missing the entire point of the whole article which is wholly based on the fact of the electoral college.
So if you hadn't missed the entire point of the article, or if the entire point of the article wasn't based on the failings of the electoral college system, your criticism of it might have had merit.
So just as you missed the point of the article, you missed the point of my post, which wasn't about your impoliteness, but rather your hypocrisy.
If you're in a state that is solidly red or blue, then similar logic applies to downballot races.