Daily reminder that more Bernie supporters voted for Hillary in 2016 than Hillary supporters voted for Obama in 2008.

Voting Democrat: 1 vote for the Democrats

Voting Republican: 2 votes for the Republicans

Not voting: Somehow 4 votes for the Republicans

Not being a registered voter: 20 votes for the republicans

Not voting for the Democrats because you criticize them from the left: 8,000 votes for the Republicans

it's just electoral science :nate-silver:

any election that comes down to a margin anywhere near that gets decided by lawyers

is that they somehow imagine that its all going to come down to one vote

hey what happened last time it actually did come down to a handful of votes?

I often hear them say "if you don't vote for our guy, it's a vote for the other guy!". It's like a child's approach to politics. If I don't fucking vote, it's literally just that. Not a vote.

tbf it’s less about your individual vote and more about the entire bloc of leftists who won’t vote for Biden. e.g. if Biden loses by 1000 votes and there were 2000 leftists who refused to vote, it’s obviously their fault.

The only difference is that if Trump were president every elected Democrat would have "from the river to the sea" in their bio.

But since it's a dem president they just tell those same protestors to shut up because they're hurting their electoral chances.

If you haven't already moved to Wisconsin to vote in 2024 you don't really care about the state of American democracy

You simply cannot fathom the magnificent wisdom and vision of the Founding Fathers

Just wanna say how wild it is that in 2000 bush lost the popular vote by 0.5% and won the electoral college by 5, a small enough margin that I remember people at the time saying that it was extremely unlikely and would probably never happen again, and then in 2016 Trump lost the popular vote by 2% and won the electoral college by 77, an absolutely huge amount.

Really don't understand why there isn't stronger support for the president who explicitly told young voters "nothing will fundamentally damentally change" and "I have no sympathy for problems faced by young people"

Clearly it's because they don't understand politics is voting for people who constantly tell you to go fuck yourself because otherwise they won't make as much in consulting fees.

It’s not edgy at all, you are correct. Electoralism in the US takes the wind out of progressive movements. It replaces direct action with campaigning and “letting the system work” until any progressive momentum has dissipated.

Leftists should literally stop talking about elections as if they aren’t happening. Vote for whoever you want, it does not matter. I want to know what you (figurative “you”) are doing in real terms of organizing and direct action, not who you voted for to ostensibly do those things on your behalf. I don’t say this from a moral high ground btw, I really should do more myself, but I at least understand the reality of my laziness and I’m not going to be phone banking or whatever the fuck next November.

Tell them they have to vote for Jill stein because it's her turn.

And then really put your foot down and demand why that isn't a viable reason anymore.

My other favorite is when they say if you aren't voting for Biden you're voting for Trump.

Tell them you also aren't voting for Trump, which means you are voting for Biden (unless that thing they just said was horseshit) so effectively you're voting twice without breaking any rules, and ask them why they're only exercising half of their right to vote compared to you.