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  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    No. Vote Biden.

    If you can spare the time or money, volunteer and donate to the campaign in places they can actually win.

    EDIT: Also, vote Democrat if there are any other elections going on at the same time. If Trump does win, the only chance of holding him to any kind of account is to have as many Democrats in positions of power as possible.

    Sincerely, someone who can’t vote in your elections but still lives with the knock-on effects!

      • Holyginz@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Because trumpets will always vote Trump. People voting for third party may not be actively supporting Trump, but the 3rd party has zero chance of winning so the only way to keep Trump from winning is to vote for who actually can win against him currently. Which is biden.

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        4 months ago

        Being a red state doesn’t guarantee a Trump win though. In the last election he assumed Georgia would put him over the top because they are historically a red state but they actually ended up swinging over to blue by a small majority.

        There was a huge controversy around it because Trump called up people there and told them to tamper with the numbers to let him win anyway

        The Republican party is counting on the idea that people forget these things quickly lol

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          OK, but OP mentioned a Red state specifically. They want a more nuanced answer than “vote blue just in case”.

          Assume a state so red, Trump loving and Biden hating that there is no possibility of a blue win. Is voting Biden in that particular state still the best strategy for the future of the USA?

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            4 months ago

            There is never no possibility. Florida is considered a red state up there with texas and gore lost to it from a florida court decision on hanging chads.

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              4 months ago

              Florida wasn’t a red state, more democrats have won than Republicans in Florida. It’s the past few years thing that the racism is taking hold quickly.

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                4 months ago

                that just shows a state can change and it can change at any time. enough folks could get fed up that with your vote the outcome is different. Politics is like the stock market. You can use historical trends to guess at the future but historical trends do not always indicate future behaviour.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Because there are lots of other people who are not Trump.

          Voting for candidates with more extreme policies shifts the political needle, even if they don’t win.

          • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
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            4 months ago

            OP has given us no info about the candidates they’re considering other than RFK, who is a lunatic. There’s no merit to encouraging RFK’s views, so Biden should be OP’s choice.

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              4 months ago

              RFK has significantly less lunacy than Trump, and is much more coherent than both Biden and Trump.

              He still supports Israel though, so there is no anti genocide candidate.

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                  4 months ago

                  The way RFK makes (coherent) arguments in public is streets ahead of Biden and Trump, but so is almost any politician.

                  In terms of honesty, RFK is between Biden and Trump. Half truths and populism, rather than the full lies of Trump.