In case any Americans are not aware of this: the rest of the world is FUCKING TERRIFIED of how this election is going to go. If trump wins, it affects more than just America. If trump wins, it will fuck so many other countries in so many ways.
So first of all, PLEASE VOTE. The rest of the world doesn’t get to vote in your election, but we do get directly impacted by your election, so please do what we can’t, and vote.
Secondly, remember that you’re not just voting for America. You’re voting on behalf of the all the countries that will be impacted by this election.
Please, for the love of God, vote blue, and save not just America from a second trump term, but the whole goddamn world.
Oh, so you like GENOCIDE?!
I know you tagged this as sarcasm, but just a reminder to anyone who is still hesitant over voting blue because of the Palestinian genocide:
Palestinians are literally asking you to vote for Harris.
Theyre asking this, because TRUMP WILL BE WORSE FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES.
Trump is friends with Netenfuckwad. Netenfuckwad WANTS TRUMP TO WIN. Trump thinks that America needs to go further in supporting Israel. Trump has spoken openly about “finishing” Gaza. Trump and his family have spoken openly about the “real estate opportunities” that are opening up in Gaza.
Don’t like genocide? VOTE HARRIS. Palestinians are literally asking you to.
I truly hate living in the US. Like I should not have world ending anxiety every four years where I sit in the fetal position because we are this close to fascism. I am so fucking tired.
❗️Nevada voters - this is going to sound weird, but PICK UP YOUR PHONE if an unknown number calls.
**Lots of signatures on ballots are not matching and your ballot may need to be fixed.
TLDR; yes, signature matching is an antiquated way to verify ballots but it is still being used. Reportedly thousands of ballots here need to be cured. Answer the phone!
Check your ballots and tell your people to check theirs. There is a process to fix errors (usually signatures not matching; common with younger voters who tend to sign their ballots nicer than their driver’s license or whatever form they signed to register)
This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).
This also seems to be a good time to mention prison radio. Revolutionary literature created in prison. Hear from everyone from the soothing yet majestic voice of Mumia Abu Jamal to Pendleton 2. Listen to them, organise, share, donate and support them.
As Uncle Ho said, when the doors of the prison break open, the dragons will fly out. Free em all.
You of course understand that most such abstentions are in states where the outcome is already determined. What would a democratic vote in Pittsburgh do for your presidential votescolding?
Ohio used to be a swing state! Florida used to be a swing state! You don’t get to sit this shit out when vindictive white baby boomers are the most consistently reliable voting demographic! That’s how people end up with Ted Fucking Cruz and a gerrymandered state legislature outlawing abortion and transgender health care!
Also, let’s say you’re right, and there is genuinely no chance to flip your district from red to blue. It is still important to vote. Because if the Republicans know your district is absolutely safe, they don’t have to spend any money to keep their guy in office, they can spend the money on the place where their guy is in danger.
If your district has a rise in the number of people voting Democrat, all of a sudden your district isn’t looking that safe any longer. And they have to spend money there on ads and shit to make sure it stays safe. And that’s money they’re not spending in swing districts. That makes it easier for Democrats elsewhere to get elected.
Also, local offices are on the ballot. And local offices need a lot fewer votes to win an election than national offices.
If you have, for example, two judge positions and one of them is “tough on crime” and one of them talks about “wanting to make sure that all people get justice regardless of race or gender or any other factor” it will make a big difference to your community which one of them gets elected.
If you have two candidates for school board and one is advocating for book bans and the other one isn’t, it will make a big difference to your community which one of them gets elected.
Isn’t Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania which is a swing state? Doesn’t turning a state from firmly Democratic to firmly swing require one or both of more Republican and fewer Democratic voters?
Yes, Ohio was a swing state. Not even that long ago, seriously. Eight years.
Kansas used to be Bright Fucking Red. Now it’s trending toward maroon. We have a democrat governor. Wichita KS elected an openly trans councilwoman. We kept abortion safe and legal here. Because we fucking showed up at the polls. Sure, our piddly little two electoral votes don’t “matter” in the presidential election, but that other shit? That Fucking Matters. We have more work to do, for sure, but showing up and voting is the first step.
This is a map of party affiliation - people who identify as Republican or Democrat. It is not likely voters or registered voters, it is a map of political belief in the US.
Pennsylvania is considered a swing state, but it breaks 46/39 in favor of Democrats. Louisiana breaks 43/41 for Democrats. Why isn’t it a swing state?
Texas? 40/39 for Democrats. West Virginia Missouri, Ohio, and Mississsippi are all within 2 points.
Here is the electoral map.
I need you to recognize that Republicans only have a firm hold (greater than a 5 point margin) in a handful of states. Even if every one of the other states went Republican, they would not win.
(Note: Independents were not counted although they generally do “lean” one way or the other. As of 2023 they are a roughly even split. I did not have the time nor inclination to try to factor this in state by state, but would welcome someone else doing so.)
Honestly? Ohio is still basically a swing state! We have one Democratic senator and it’s gonna be tight but we might get to keep him! We fucking enshrined abortion in our constitution despite a state law banning it - which required TWO elections in a row to do, because the Rs tried to change the amendment process three months before the vote so we had to vote THAT down first then come back and vote for the abortion amendment!
And if we can show the fuck up this year, we can not only keep Sherrod Brown, we can end the gerrymandering that’s caused our current districts to get shot down by the state Supreme Court seven fucking times. But because of the current method of drawing districts, that doesn’t matter, the Rs can keep submitting new bad maps and they get used because there’s not a good one to choose from.
Oh, and guess why the state Supreme Court is even willing to do that? Because we’ve managed to move from an all-Republican Supreme Court to one that they barely hold, 4-3, so all we need is for one of them to not be entirely awful.
Also CANNOT BELIEVE that person used Pittsburgh as an example when just four years ago we were all on the edge of our seats waiting to see which way PA would go - because it went to Trump in 2016!
Do none of you even know that Florida was considered a swing state not very long ago? See how blue it is on those maps? Yeah. Florida went for Obama. In 2000, Florida was the reason the election had to go to SCOTUS. Republicans spent a LOT of money convincing all those registered Democrats that Florida was a Republican safe haven. And now it is. But we ALSO have abortion on the ballot, despite our butthead of a governor recently getting slapped down by a federal judge for threatening local stations about ads in favor of the amendment. He got the Heritage Foundation to write an “economic impact” statement on the damn ballot about the future lawsuits it would create, but the amendment has a lot of support. It will get a lot of those Dems out to vote, if we stop telling people that their vote doesn’t matter because they’re in a solidly red state!
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