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2016 Postmortem

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)

8. I see your point

Reply to DemonGoddess (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 01:46 AM

Dec 2016

100 people vote. 51 vote for Trump. 49 vote for Clinton. Trump wins.

100 people vote. 48 vote for Trump. 49 vote for Clinton. 3 don't vote. Clinton wins.

100 people vote... Oh, what the hell. There are so many possibilities. The thing is, everybody voting doesn't guarantee our candidate winning. We have to turn out our voters, not gripe at people for staying home or voting for Jill Stein. It's not any person's duty or obligation to vote for our candidate. When we approach voters that way, when we tell them they have to vote for our candidate or else, it may occur to people we're not being real affirmative. We could lose elections that way.

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