If we're considering all residents of the US, "didn't vote" won the election
Kids should not have a vote, but I'd be willing to say parents should get two votes. No adult has a more visceral sense of societal consequences than someone concerned about creating the future their own child will hopefully thrive in.
There are plenty of parents who have absolutely no sense of this, and plenty of children who have a better sense of this than their parents, because they’ve had to learn the hard way.
Choosing to reproduce, or failing to use birth control, should not give you an extra vote.
So why not?
I mean, the argument against surely is not that having children is some existential horror or great evil, right? Civilization advances by our children doing better than we did, maybe materially, but morally, ethically, and hopefully in purpose.
This scrutiny isn't applied to other citizens.
2024 turnout: 64.1%
Total Votes: 155,238,302
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...
therefore
Total eligible voters: 242,181,438
Didn't vote: 86,943,136
Votes for Trump: 77,302,580
Voting in california and not voting in california are statistically identical, so if you don't move to a swing state, you're just voting for whoever wins, right?
"You voted for DJT, you're an evil person!" "Well actually, let me explain to you how the electoral college works..."
It has certainly happened before.
Until an election is decided by rogue delegates, this is a frivolous point.
If it ever does happen, it makes the whole exercising of voting even more useless than it already is for states like CA, the vote truly means nothing as opposed to just being symbolically useless.
So, the EC absolutely matters, and it’ll matter right up until it doesn’t. At which point, who tf cares?
How does the electoral college system work in a way that encourages you to vote for someone you don't want?
You have two top candidates, by voting for a third party you are deferring to the popular vote on the top two and 'subtracting' a vote from your favorite of the top two.
Yes, I know that there are down ballot races on the same day that matter, but many don’t, for the same or similar reasons. We need elections that let everyone’s vote matter. Things like the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, working to end gerrymandering, and open primaries would all be helpful reforms in different ways.
Effectively they are giving 1/2 votes to each of their candidates, resulting in no change in the final result.
But, if you really want to be analytic, the higher the turnout of disaffected voters, the more likely they vote for Trump.
That's why, since 2016 or so, Trump always overperforms in general elections, while Democrats overperform in special/mid-term elections where the turnout is low.
So, these liberal/democrats copium about turnouts and non-votes no longer hold true. pre-2016 "Get out to Vote" were implicit Democrat crying calls to rally votes for the Democratic party. You still see people who haven't understood the underlying shift using this as a "dog whistle" to campaign for democrats while appearing neutral