You saw this coming
Nov. 4th, 2008 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
VOTE!
Don't just vote for the President/Vice President. Vote all the way down your ballot.
VOTE!
Vote because your voice DOES count. The 2004 election was decided because of 537 people in Florida.
VOTE!
Vote because you ARE affected by everything on the ballot, from the next president of the United States of America all the way down to your local county measures. Your friends are affected. Your family. If you care about them, vote.
VOTE!
Vote because if you don't, you have no right to complain. No right to complain about taxes, health care, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about the sucky state of education in America, about your lack of student loans, about how crappy the job and stock market are, about ANYTHING. So put up or shut up.
VOTE!
Don't just vote for the President/Vice President. Vote all the way down your ballot.
VOTE!
Vote because your voice DOES count. The 2004 election was decided because of 537 people in Florida.
VOTE!
Vote because you ARE affected by everything on the ballot, from the next president of the United States of America all the way down to your local county measures. Your friends are affected. Your family. If you care about them, vote.
VOTE!
Vote because if you don't, you have no right to complain. No right to complain about taxes, health care, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about the sucky state of education in America, about your lack of student loans, about how crappy the job and stock market are, about ANYTHING. So put up or shut up.
VOTE!
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Date: 2008-11-05 03:18 am (UTC)Yeah but that's Florida.
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Date: 2008-11-05 09:23 am (UTC)It could have been any state, and that includes California. California has a huge conservative southern population, and if you recall, the population's a hell of a lot more dense there.
When it comes down to it, it's never just the popular vote, either-- it's the electoral votes as well, and the tiniest single vote in that respect can tip the scales dramatically.
Don't try and excuse your laziness.
no subject
Date: 2008-11-05 09:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-05 09:33 am (UTC)Going back to the presidential aspect: one person can say they can write in Mickey Mouse, or vote for Nader, or do whatever and pretend that BECAUSE of the electoral vote, their vote doesn't count. But if that one person manages to convince 10 other people to vote, and they in turn each convince 10 people, and they ALL decide to vote for candidates not in the two major parties, then it can and DOES have a major affect. The power of one is the power of many-- the popular vote holds a lot of sway in states where it's too close to call. Just because California typically isn't one of them doesn't mean a person's voice isn't heard or isn't worth it. Like I said before, EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS AFFECTED. That includes you.
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Date: 2008-11-05 09:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-05 09:49 am (UTC)Being that those precincts have yet to report in and there is STILL only a difference of 5%, it can still go either way.
That said, are you TRYING to piss me off?