"I live in a red state my vote doesn't ma-"

If your vote didn't matter they wouldn't try so hard to make it harder to vote in red states. Voting in red states can turn them into swing states like Georgia, Ohio, and Arizona. And voting in blue states can keep them from becoming swing states.

California used to be Red. Texas was Blue long ago. Florida was once a swing state. Obama took Indiana but it's gone redder since. Ten years ago Arizona and Georgia going blue was unthinkable.

Things change and we can make them change.

And that's before getting into more local elections. Turning cities blue, the state legislature.

Red states have flipped blue in recent years at those levels too.

Because people vote, and if we vote in high enough numbers we can turn a tight election into a walk in the park. If we vote in high enough numbers, we can turn a loss into a win. So many good things have happened in states where someone won by like 100 votes. (arizona is one)

-sniperct

@RickiTarr and in “blue” states votes still can really matter.

Evan Low who is running for House of Rep in my district came in second in the primary which in CA’s open primaries means he is on the Nov ballot - by FIVE votes and only after a recount broke what had been a tie (he’s a long shot to win against Sam Liccardo who is the former mayor of San Jose - and both are Democrats - two of those votes were my household)

But Adam Schiff faces a GOP opponent for Senate as Dem votes were split

@Rycaut ... and also because Schiff gave money to his Republican opponent because he thinks that that Republican opponent will be easier to beat than Katie Porter would have been. Dirty politics against progressives, yet again. :(

@RickiTarr

@jamesmarshall @RickiTarr he didn’t literally give money to his opponent. He ran ads (including on Fox) portraying the race as being between him and Garvey and trying to tie Garvey to Trump. Which yes was reported by papers like the Washington Post as “giving money” to Garvey but it’s also true that there were a lot of Democrats running splitting the Democratic Party vote into many candidates while there were fewer GOP candidates and while CA overall is Blue there are many GOP voters here still