defcon4
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Your twisted reasoning doesn't hold water. Say, five of us decide to go on a hiking trip. We come to a fork on the hiking path and we are undecided which path to follow and instead of flipping a coin we decide to vote. Three of us vote for the right and two for the left path facing the fork. According to you the two who voted for the left path had no vote, correct?That is an assumption on your part. A scenario of shouda, coulda, woulda. Get real.Nope, not how it would work at all.
Take California and New York, just because they're oft-cited examples and because I know the numbers. Over six million voters in those states voted for Rump, yet had their votes tossed in the trash by the inane "winner take all" system. That's not all --- with such a low turnout there were millions more who didn't bother to vote, uncountable among them being those who didn't bother because they KNEW their vote wasn't going to count. Even those who voted for Clinton wasted their time, because the state was already going to do that whether they voted for Rump, voted for Clinton, or voted for nobody at all. So IF voters had a reason to think their vote would actually count, a lot more of them would show up than a pathetic 55%.
That's one --- and by no means the only one --- of the deleterious effects of the EC system as it's practiced.
Another one (and my no means the only other one) is the artificial bullshit walls it creates dividing the country into imaginary "red" states and "blue" states --- as if every last person in California is a liberal and every last person in Texas is a conservative, neither of which is true and which does both a disservice and patronizing insult. Then multiply that by fifty.
For starters.
That's true in EVERY election, and it's a point I've been on the whole time.
No voter in a "locked" state has a reason to even show up at the polling place, at least not for POTUS. Doesn't matter -- if you're in New York your state is voting for the Democrat. You can vote for the Democrat, you can vote for the Republican, you can vote for a third party to make a drop-in-the-bucket statement, or you can stay home and not vote at all --------- ALL FOUR scenaria produce exactly the same result.
Voters know this. Why the fuck should they bother?
I had a vote this year, because it wasn't clear which way my state would go. But my friends and relatives in Mississippi, California, Texas, Washington and Louisiana ---- they had no vote. Didn't matter what they did, their state was already decided and there was jack-all they could do either for or against it.
That *IS* real. And it's also fucked up.