Exclusive: Harris leads Trump 44% to 42% in US presidential race, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

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To be fair, your vote statistically doesn’t matter in some states. I’ll make a bet with somebody that if I don’t vote in my state it won’t change anything.

Dems really phoned this one in.

There's plenty of downticket races that potentially directly affect your life more that matter.

This article is about Harris vs Trump

"Derp", you say?

So, willful ignorance. You must be fun to be friends with.

Derp derp. Derp derp derp.

Yes, very.

Parents need to have more control over what their kids are seeing and doing on the internet.

True, I probably wouldn't mind if they read things like this thread, though.

I'd give pause letting them read some of your comments, though.

I don’t vote in my state it won’t change anything

Wrong, wrong and wrong.
Your vote matters down-ballot. Your vote matters for a mandate. Your vote matters because you will pay attention. The trick is to get people to feel the way you do so they can rule you.

You wanna make a bet? If I don’t vote, my state will still vote Harris.

The trick is actually to trick people like you into thinking they have control when they actually don’t.

I would argue that even if your state is guaranteed to go one way or the other (aside from down ballot races which are obviously very important) there’s still value in voting for president, if only to illustrate the discrepancy between the popular vote and the electoral college. The higher we run up the margins, the more it makes it obvious to everyone that we need to ditch the electoral college.

Federal, maybe, but it’s still important to vote for down ticket races, and your presidential vote can at least be a statistic toward the popular vote count. I get what you mean though, I’m from a consistently blue state.