2018 american midterm elections (national edition)

name just one dozen things more effective than voting and im not asking about "effective"

Eating one dozen muffins

Kemp has declared victory.

There's also this:

BREAKING FROM THE @AP: A spokeswoman in Kemp’s office, who has also worked on his campaign, says there are 22,000 provisional ballots. She has shared the county breakdown with only one candidate — Kemp — but has not shared it with the media or the public. #CantTrustKemp #gapol

— Georgia Democrat (@GeorgiaDemocrat) November 7, 2018

but if a majority of those 22000 votes would go to Abrams, which seems likely to me, that would bring Kemp down below 50% and result in a runoff, if my math isn't wrong

don't have much hope that a runoff is actually going to happen though

Kind of a dumb way to frame it imo, the question should be why do so many opt out (not counting the forcibly disenfranchised) despite the fact that it's the most popularly understood way to "do politics"

xp

name just one dozen things more effective than voting and im not asking about "effective"

posting to ilx

I think a separate thread is a good idea fwiw, esp as it's not a uniquely American question

2. Running over Kemp with a bus

xps

in-person lobbying at the legislature,
letter-writing to legislators on issues before them,
calling legislators on issues before them,
organizing neighbors around a local issue,
volunteering on a campaign,
donating money to a campaign,
running for office,
circulating an initiative petition,
volunteering at a non-profit service agency (e.g. food bank),
volunteering for a non-profit political group (e.g. Sierra Club),
giving money to a non-profit political group,
giving money to a non-profit service agency,
volunteering for a local government advisory board,
volunteering at your local school.

you get the drift.

3. being friends with og mods

"arguably" is right, aimless

aimless you left off a very important action which is agreeing with your friends on twitter

RT if u r 4 change

volunteering counts as exactly one thing. as does donating money (i'm sure the 15 bucks i gave the DSA made a big difference.)

.@staceyabrams campaign holding a press call now. “We know our opponent has had the secretary of state’s office declare he is the winner. We are here to say we don’t accept that.”

— Kira Lerner (@kira_lerner) November 8, 2018

Abrams campaign really pushing back, awesome

(^thread)

Organizing yr workplace arguably a lot more important than many of the already listed activities. But I would say that.

oh great the voting vs not voting slap fight is on ilx now thanks to one of our best and brightest

dmac, winning an election is all about aggregating votes. that aggregation is a community activity. all activities that tend to organize your community in the direction you desire makes a difference in the direction of society as a whole, which in turn is political at heart.cohesive communities are the soul of elections, more so than single votes. ask a hoos about this.

i know hoos yes he is a very good hoos indeed

and all those things are fine but listen, votes

volunteering counts as exactly one thing. as does donating money (i'm sure the 15 bucks i gave the DSA made a big difference.)

― ian, Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:22 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is sorta interesting like

I volunteered fo diff candidates in diff places in diff capacities

Is that just a singular "volunteer" action

As always though I'm deeply moved by unperson's totally good faith and sincere shit from a great height

are u misreading my dname man

lol your shits always come from a really grounded place, I'm grateful for it

hmm idk but <3 obv

As always though I'm deeply moved by unperson's totally good faith and sincere shit from a great height

Don't drag me into this. I voted, and am very pleased with how things shook out in NJ.

Hoooooos- Volunteering for multiple people is great! But to say that volunteering for different groups functions as a variety of "things you can do" idk. Obe umbrella to me.

Like, if you eat eight different cookies, you still just ate cookies.

no that counts as eight things see my post above

i think i agree with hoos, affecting multiple events has to be noted

voting is prob more realistic for most tho

if you spend one day volunteering for a candidate, you have done 1x volunteer

if you spend nine days volunteering for seven candidates, you have done at least 7x volunteers

Supposedly there's a drive to cure thousands of unsigned ballots before FL's 5 pm deadline tomorrow. No idea if it'll achieve much but it's to force a recount

some might also want to protect themselves emotionally from being caught up in the news

Whyever would anyone want that

I mean being emotionally caught up in the news is great

*twitch*

Look at most of us for instance, we're the pinnacle of emotional health

*twitch*

*twitch*

W8 we hav twitch streamers up on this bitch

BREAKING NEWS: More ballots are still coming in. #FloridaRecount @SenBillNelson: just received 4,000 more votes. Margin is down to 0.32% and a 26,000 vote deficit@nikkifried: just received 4,000 more ballots. Margin is down to 0.1% and an 8,244 vote deficit #FlaPol #Sayfie

— Juan Peñalosa (@JuanPenalosa) November 8, 2018

That tweet is incomprehensible to me but it has a pungent sweet air

can we PLEASE lock this thread that never should have been used in the first place?

Seems reasonable. Back to US Politics, November 2018: "There is no blame. There is no anything."