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Won't do anything where I live. Every single non-MAGA person here could vote Dem and the Republicans would still take it in a landslide.
Every small victory matters. Even if losing an election, get more people to vote. Suddenly a sure fire victory of 20+ points becomes 15 points. Then 10. Then 5. And over 10 years it inches closer to flipping.
People who don't vote because "Why bother, the other party wins bigly all the time" are the reason the other party wins bigly. More people will vote for your party over time when they see the slow crawl of it "mattering more".
You should still vote as a small protest against every asshole you know.
"It's not progress if I don't win" is a terrible way to go through life.
I mean my guy never wins cause my guy is a third party candidate. If the Dems won't win anyway, I might as well help the ones I actually like instead of the ones others are forced to tolerate.
It’s impossible for a third party candidate to win. Vote 3rd party in the primary if you like, but get on the anti-fascism bus in November. There’s a lot to hate about the Dems, but they’re the only game in town in November. Abstaining from voting for a candidate that can win is only exercising privilege that says it doesn’t matter to you if the fascists do win.
Voting is so easy.
Just do it anyway.
Like, I get it. But just do it anyway.
If nothing else it sends a message. If people who don't vote because they don't think it'll matter see how many other people actually did vote Dem and it surprises them, they might get out next time to join in.
I do vote. Have every year since 2016. I just don't vote Dem cause I live in Missouri and the Dems haven't mattered or tried winning here since before I was born. So I vote third party.
You say that, but you would be surprised at how many states that aren't as close as they claim. For instance, Texas:
Texas doesn't collect the party affiliations of their voter registrations, so they have to extrapolate it from voting patterns, which isn't that hard.
Democratic - 8,278,780 - 46.7%
Republican - 6,586,795 - 37.1%
Independent - 2,881,410 - 16.2%
https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx
(Check your state at the bottom)
Maybe that's why they don't collect party affiliations. They'd hate to have to publish the fact that TEXAS IS A BLUE STATE.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine is amazing, and has been for a long time. They've long ago convinced Texas Democrats that they don't stand a chance, so they stay home, and like you, convince others to stay home, too.
What you should do, no matter where you are, is commit to voting, and commit to taking another non-voting friend with you. Nag them, hassle them, convince them, whatever it takes. Even if your state has a slight Republican lead, that might be enough to overcome it with new voters.
If nothing else, it reduces their lead, and if that decrease ends up being significant enough, election after election, eventually they lose. Don't make it easy on them.
Ok just to state a small bit, I don't have friends in this state. All.of my friends I talk to live elsewhere. It's something I'm working on, but it's been a struggle.
As for my state I live in Missouri. According to your site, Missouri is big red. It breaks down like this:
You combine the non-Republican numbers and you get 2,103,755 or 50.6%. So yes it might be possible for a Dem to have a slight edge IF they can win over the other two sides. That's a massive uphill battle considering the people I used to talk to when I worked retail feel the Dems abandon them. The only people still supporting them really are union members and people living in the couple cities. The people outside of the cities that don't have union jobs never feel heard from Dems and the Republicans play into that hard. Even if the Conservatives don't actually do anything positive for them, they at least pretend to care in the run up to election whereas the few Dem candidates refuse to touch the smaller areas.
Same boat
Anyone without (R) next to their name doesn't stand a chance in my district so I gotta be registered Republican so I can maybe do some harm reduction in the primaries