• PugJesus
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    8 months ago

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

    what.

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      8 months ago

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

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        8 months ago

        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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          8 months ago

          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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            8 months ago

            It means that their vote doesn’t count.

            Do you know what Super Tuesday is?

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              8 months ago

              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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                8 months ago

                Something that happened long before my state’s primary.

                It means that their vote doesn’t count.

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                  8 months ago

                  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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                    8 months ago

                    Except the one I was actually speaking with, and whose example you popped in in support of, quite literally has one of the strongest voices in the primaries by their own example.

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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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                8 months ago

                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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            8 months ago

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