[quote=poorgradstudent][quote=harvey]Why do people say their vote doesn’t make a difference in CA?
If your vote doesn’t make a difference, then who’s vote does?[/quote]
In California a person’s presidential vote in the general election doesn’t really matter. If Cali ever goes Republican in the next 30 years, it’s going to be in such a deluge election we’re not going to be the state that tips the scales. When my far left friends talk about voting for Jill Stein, I’m like “Knock yourself out… won’t affect the final result”.
Obviously an individual voter matters a lot in local races, and in competitive house seats like Scott Peters’s.[/quote]
In any election where the winning candidate wins by more than two votes, I can argue that a person’s vote does not matter.
However collectively everybody’s vote matters. We need to learn to not be so cynical.
