Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:53 pm
I think to an extent, it is subjective, sure.
I feel my vote "matters" because I live in a swing-state and have worked on enough campaigns to understand how close to the wire these elections can get. But if I lived in, say, Seattle, I wouldn't feel that my vote mattered much on a statewide or national level.
That said, local elections; whether for city council, county supervisor, etc etc, are still important races and have an impact on our day to day lives. My vote for who will represent and go to bat for my little neighborhood, to me, matters just as much (if not more) than my vote for a US Senator.
Whatever the case, I'm pretty disillusioned this cycle because I don't believe in the Democratic Party and think that it is a hollow, opportunistic institution as a whole. But the modern incarnation of the GOP scares me so much that I feel my vote matters insofar as to deny the GOP a chance to regain the Senate and House.
I feel my vote "matters" because I live in a swing-state and have worked on enough campaigns to understand how close to the wire these elections can get. But if I lived in, say, Seattle, I wouldn't feel that my vote mattered much on a statewide or national level.
That said, local elections; whether for city council, county supervisor, etc etc, are still important races and have an impact on our day to day lives. My vote for who will represent and go to bat for my little neighborhood, to me, matters just as much (if not more) than my vote for a US Senator.
Whatever the case, I'm pretty disillusioned this cycle because I don't believe in the Democratic Party and think that it is a hollow, opportunistic institution as a whole. But the modern incarnation of the GOP scares me so much that I feel my vote matters insofar as to deny the GOP a chance to regain the Senate and House.