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Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia, flip 13 seats statewide
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It means that voting still matters. Even if intimidation, lying, and fear tactics from the other side steal some votes away... we can still win next November, and hopefully, November 2028.
You forget the ones who encourage sitting it out as a means of protest. Even if the candidates are both shit, your country needs you to pick a side. Remember: sometimes it's not about endorsing the candidate, so much as it is to deny the other a seat in power. The system will function as it normally does, but the choice is very much yours. You don't get to sit it out because you disagree with one or two bullet points, then whine about the next 4 years.
Oh fuck off. Some people dont want to take part in a political system that directly equates to genocide overseas
In a winner-take-all election, anything less than a vote for the runner up is an endorsement of the winner.
You're not "refusing to take part" in the election, you're just voting "either is fine by me."
That's not how elections work. You don't know who the winner is going to be in advance, so there's no way to knowingly vote for "the runner up" before the polls close. Nevermind the simple math of 50%+1, making your choice of Cuomo or Sliwa or a write-in for Eric Adams irrelevant once Mamdani's crested half the voting pool.
And in Virginia? When Dems just took the map in a landslide? Being angry at someone who didn't vote when your favorite Democrat just crossed the line with a 15-pt margin is deranged.
Essentially every winner-take-all election comes down to the establishment and the opposition. Either you like the team in charge and vote for them, want them replaced and vote for the most likely challenger, or find both choices equivalent and do something else with your vote.
NYC's mayor election is a great example. Every adult who looked at polling knew that it would either be Mamdani or Cuomo, and those who still voted for someone else were communicating very effectively that both choices were equivalent to them.
Look, you can do whatever the hell you want to with your vote. Spoil it, waste it on a "third party" vanity campaign, or just skip the election. Just don't pretend that your wasted vote is somehow not a declaration that whomever wins is as good to you as the runner up.
Okay, so who filled these rolls in the NYC Mayor's Race?
That's not what happened in the primary. And even in the general, Sliwa and Cuomo polled neck and neck after Adams dropped out.
And then when your candidate loses you're going to come back here and yell at me for voting wrong. Hell, even when you win, you're yelling that I've voted wrong.
All I have to say is "I don't like Dem Candidate X". I don't even need to tell you who I voted for. Somehow I've single handled ruined your favorite candidate's election odds.
I know people who were convinced Sliwa was going to be the next NYC mayor, because Mamdani was in the primary ruining Cuomo's chances.
Cuomo, who was endorsed by the outgoing mayor, was the establishment. Mamdani, who ran an insurgent campaign to beat both Adams and Cuomo in the ranked-choice primary, was the opposition.
That the choice was either Cuomo or Mamdani was so obvious that the leadership of the Republican party endorsed Cuomo over his own party's nominee.
The DNC primary was not a winner-take-all election. We could call them "single ballot plurality wins" or "first past the post" if the difference is confusing to you.
Where the fuck did I say that? Go ahead and waste your vote all you want. Sometimes both plausible winners suck, and "they both are equally bad" is a perfectly fine fucking message.
Just don't expect any rhetorical accolades for voting "either" from the rest of us.