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Vote anyway. Voter apathy is largely how things got so bad.
I'm in a similarly red state. I know my vote probably isn't going to matter (thanks, ~~Obama~~ Electoral College), but I'm going to do it anyway. And I'm trying to get as many people around me out to vote as well.
You should go vote if for no other reason than to keep Sherrod Brown in his seat.
And honestly nobody knows what's actually going to happen in this election. Ohio is "red" (god I hate that terminology) only by a few points. It's flippable in the right circumstances. Like if people remember that MAGA wants to force 10 year old rape victims to have their attacker's baby.
This is a numbers and momentum game. If you vote AND some of your fellow closeted Midwestern Democrats (or at least pro small-d democracy) vote and convince some people who want to have a chance to fix American democracy to vote for the Democratic nominee, Ohio could flip.
They all could. If there were justice in the world, all 50 states would be "blue" on November 5th because of who Trump is, what he's done in the past, and what he's telling us he'll do in the future.
Vote!
Unironically we can assign some blame to Obama...
In 08 he had the opportunity to "save" the DNC. Instead he viewed the entire concept as outdated and ignored the party, instead handling everything internally on his team
If Obama (or more recently Biden) had worked on the DNC and tried to build it up after Hillary's people burnt it all down (once in 08, again in 16) we wouldnt have had to suffer thru trump and would be seeing the end of a.progressive presidents second term right now.
If he'd have done that and lived up to 08 campaign promises, then there probably wouldn't be any "red states" left by now.
Obama didn't break the party, but he had a chance to fix an already broken party and instead just ignored it. We're still paying for it
Holy mental backflips to change talk about the electoral college to talk about the DNC and act as if they're the same.
Are you not aware of how since 2016 the DNC has used "victory funds" that "share" donations with state parties and that has lead to Republicans solidifying power in red states and using that power to maintain it thru things like gerrymandering and voter suppression? And that those things exacerbate existing issues with electoral college?
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-leak-clinton-team-deflected-state-cash-concerns-226191
That program is still around. Today it's known as the Biden Victory Fund.
https://www.opensecrets.org/joint-fundraising-committees-jfcs/biden-victory-fund/C00744946/2024/summary
But there is about a million going to each state and 90 to Joe so far. So it is a little better...
And the backflips continue! That is not the electoral college.
Dude never has any idea what he’s talking about.
This post is kind of like when somebody who doesn't know anything about cars starts throwing out words like carburator, transmission, and alternator because they know those are car things, but they have no idea how to use them in the context of how they are actually relevant.
It's hard to begin to know how to tackle correcting anything because the amount of effort it would take to unweave and reconstruct the kernels of truth is like trying to extract an egg out of a fully baked cake.
This is probably overly harsh considering the slant of the post is absolutely in the right spirit, the analysis is just completely broken.
Will you just stop man? Jesus fucking Christ with the “everything is the fault of democrats” bullshit.
Be less obvious.