Go ahead, throw your vote away!
July 6th, 2004
I read this interesting article in Business Week (while having nothing to do at work), and it talked about how on the whole, your vote really doesn’t matter. So basically, unless you live in like florida, missouri, or ohio (and the few other swing states), the party your state will pick is already set. Through artful gerrymandering and incumbent favoring legislation, whatever you vote won’t change any outcomes; none. It said that last election for the House of Representatives, 98.2% of the incumbents won. Thats about 10 state reps of 435 losing.
Case in point is New York State. On the political map, it is staunchly Democrat. However, only about 10% of the whole state land mass is Democrat; that is, NYC. Another reason to hate the city. I think Upstate New York should just boot out the City and become its own state. Then atleast we’ll have 2 or 3 electoral votes. Heck, at this point, Maine has more say in policitics than we do. M A I N E !
Sigh…
I leave you with the inspired words of Krang:
“Go ahead, throw your vote away!”
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Just get rid of the electoral college votes.
Comment by Lawrence — 7/6/04 @ 7:48 pm
Well you’d have to vote that out of practice.
Comment by Mitchell — 7/6/04 @ 7:51 pm
True, it’s useless to vote Republican in California and Democrat in Texas, except for battleground states. If presidency is solely depended on popular votes, Democrats would have been in the White House. Not a bunch of jingoist, clueless new-Conservatives.
Comment by James — 7/7/04 @ 1:30 am
nyc is still 70%+ of the state population. if it makes you feel any better, they probably make up less in votes than their actual population since so many are the POOR/recent/immigrant/minority type who never vote. we probably have a disproportionate amount of power upstate! yay!
Comment by sophia — 8/24/04 @ 5:18 pm
yeah, go ohio! :0)
Comment by Anonymous — 8/24/04 @ 6:42 pm