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If you live in 44 out of 50 states, congratulations. Your electoral vote basically has 0% chance of mattering. Vote for who you like the most.
If you live in 1 of the of the other 6 states, congrats, your vote has like a 0.01% chance of mattering, but if enough people follow that line of thinking it might actually matter, so probably consider who you vote for more seriously because (even though I won't vote for someone like Biden) I still would prefer bidet winning over turnip.
That kind of thinking is how somebody like George Santos got elected. I'd avoid making any kind of assumption.
Local and state politics are way more important and different than the federal election.
Sure, but it's hard to have a local discussion in a global forum
Well its easy not to conflate the two