"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 that's not to mention down-ballot races. Anybody who thinks school board elections aren't important hasn't been paying attention.

Evangelicals seized our institutions by playing the long game — 40, 50 years long. They did it by voting in every election, for every office.

If they can do it, we can do it. There are a lot more of us.

@Thad @RickiTarr

100% this.

Proof that you're right (there are more of us than there are of them) is in the gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement efforts they're working hard at now.

They know they can't win if we're united and engaged in the process.

@mmiasma That and the Republican candidate has only won the popular vote in 1 of the past 8 presidential elections. And that was as an incumbent, after winning his first term while losing the popular vote. @RickiTarr
@mmiasma @RickiTarr @Thad and that was the fairly extraordinary situation of the first election after 9/11. Essentially you have to go back to the 80s to have Republicans win the popular presidential vote in non-wartime circumstances.