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global1

(25,270 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 12:45 PM Feb 2016

Anyone That Uses The Excuse That Their 'One Vote' Doesn't Count Just Needs To Look At....

what went down in Iowa. This message needs to be hammered home to all Americans going forward in any of the remaining primaries and the general election. See how important your 'one vote' is. A couple of additional 'one votes' could have put Bernie on top. Another way to look at it is a couple of additional 'one votes' put Hillary on top. So your 'one vote' is important. It's so important that the 1%er's and big money donors are spending a lot of their money to buy your 'one vote'. In some states they are spending a lot of their money working to suppress your 'one vote' to take away the opportunity to vote your 'one vote'.

So bottom line we have to work hard going forward making the point how much your 'one vote' counts.

Also a message to all the young voters that showed up in Iowa. Thanks!!!!! The future is yours. You needed to get involved and need to tell all your peers to get involved politically as well. Why? - because the decisions you make politically now will have ramifications on the rest of your life.

I'm embarrassed to say when I was your age - I didn't get involved politically. I was way too into starting my life and my career. This was at the time that Reagan won. Look at how his presidency shaped my life for me - for us. He was the starting point for the decline of the middle class and his legacy has affected you and me until today. I regret not taking interest in what was going on around me at the time and have been kicking myself ever since I discovered the errors in my way.

Don't look back when your my age and have similar regrets - similar embarrassment.

Bernie could be a transformational President just like Reagan was transformational. Bernie could undo all that Reagan and the Repug presidents that came after him have done to us. So - to the youth - get involved politically. Help yourself by helping Bernie get elected.

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Anyone That Uses The Excuse That Their 'One Vote' Doesn't Count Just Needs To Look At.... (Original Post) global1 Feb 2016 OP
+1!!! True dat! Dustlawyer Feb 2016 #1
I heard that back in 1960, Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2016 #2
You're kinda missing the point. jeff47 Feb 2016 #3
So absolutely true. Thav Feb 2016 #4
K&R. It is certainly a useful view seeing how things changed with Reagan, Gingrich etc and now JudyM Feb 2016 #5
EXACTLY! RoccoR5955 Feb 2016 #6
 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
2. I heard that back in 1960,
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 01:12 PM
Feb 2016

John F. Kennedy won by one vote per precinct nationally.

His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was quoted as saying, "I'll pay for a win but I'll be damned if I will pay for a landslide."

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
3. You're kinda missing the point.
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 01:24 PM
Feb 2016

The people saying their vote doesn't count are saying it because of policy.

In 2014, my ballot had a Republican for Senate, and a Republican for Senate. Sure, one of them technically was under the "Democratic" label, but she supported all but the most extreme Republican policies - the ones that they can't even get through the Senate with a Republican majority. She also opposed a large amount of the Democratic party platform.

Unsurprisingly, Truman's quote still works and the voters picked the real Republican.

So my vote didn't count in that the state party had done an excellent job squashing anyone who dared to run to the left of Reagan. I could have no real effect on the policy outcome, because the policy outcome is the same no matter which candidate won that Senate seat.

Thav

(946 posts)
4. So absolutely true.
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 01:32 PM
Feb 2016

The total state delegate count difference was 4. There were 6 delegates decided by coin toss because there was a tie and ONE VOTE would have mattered greatly.

JudyM

(29,277 posts)
5. K&R. It is certainly a useful view seeing how things changed with Reagan, Gingrich etc and now
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 02:45 PM
Feb 2016

here's Bernie who has seen it all, too, and even more up close and personal.

One thing to make you feel better... Reagan won both elections in a landslide. Not a whole lot a single person could've done, realistically. Man, I remember that crushing Mondale defeat, it was truly awful. Physically/emotionally eviscerating.

We have had some truly hard defeats, more recently both Shrub wins. Obama was such a great answer to all that. At least in theory... no one expected the advent of the tea party bloc to destroy the dream.

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
6. EXACTLY!
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 03:54 PM
Feb 2016

And in a big way DEMOCRACY won the election over any of the three candidates with this.
Each and every vote counts.

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