• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    If only I lived in a swing state. Then my vote could have meaning

    You presumably live in a state where you are firmly in the minority party? Otherwise you very definitely don’t wish you were in a swing state.

    To put it simply, swing states are just the biggest states that are purple enough that you can’t safely predict what will happen. States like Texas or California going purple would immediately make them the most important swing state by far.

    The GOP is terrified Texas might become a swing state. If through some strange alchemy California were to become a swing state it would be an existential threat to the Democrats.

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      1 month ago

      I fucking WISH we would go at least deep purple. Ive been seeing “Cats for Kamala” and “Harris Walz 2024” all over the place, and while it makes me happy, I also have to remember that I live in a very blue city in Texas. Im worried about all the rural people who are literally afraid of society.

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        1 month ago

        So you do live in a state where you are firmly in the minority party, and thus the state going purple can only benefit your party. Imagine you with your current politics moved to California, would you want it to become a purple state?