• PugJesus
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      11 个月前

      I’m in California I don’t even get to vote in primaries.

      what.

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        11 个月前

        California primaries occur on March 5th my incredibly high information friend.

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          11 个月前

          California primaries occur on March 5th my incredibly high information friend.

          How does that prevent you from voting in primaries, again?

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            It means that their vote doesn’t count. I also live in a state that has one of the very last primaries, after the race is already over anyway. By the time I voted for Bernie, he had already dropped out of the race. My vote meant nothing.

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              11 个月前

              It means that their vote doesn’t count.

              Do you know what Super Tuesday is?

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                Something that happened long before my state’s primary.

                What does my vote mean when every candidate has already dropped out anyway?

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                  11 个月前

                  Something that happened long before my state’s primary.

                  It means that their vote doesn’t count.

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                    11 个月前

                    Do you have a point you want to make? We’re both saying that “but primaries!” means nothing to us when we have no voice in the primaries.

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            By the time I vote in the presidential primary there is typically one name on my ballot.

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                  Unless there was some deeper meaning to stating the date that Cali primaries occurred on this year…?

                  … have you ever actually voted in a primary…?

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              Sometimes its because of superdelegates, sometimes its because of a mysterious series of coin flips, sometimes its because primaries are cancelled this year.

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      Is it because you didn’t register? Because everyone that I know got a ballot for the primary. And there was more on it than just the presidential pick.

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        Nah I got my ballot and voted in it. California’s vote just rarely matters in primaries even on super Tuesday since we’re on PST