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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh, BTW, did PA18 convince you EVERY vote COUNTS? Look at how CLOSE this was.
look at this
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 113,813 113,186
So from now on you vote, you vote in EVERY election, you vote for Democrats and you tell everyone you know to do the same!
PatrickforO
(14,571 posts)hugely motivational to get to the polls!
I mean, what an upset! And, if about 700 people had NOT voted, we'd have lost.
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)Not so with the Republican party right now. They're sort of running around with their tails between their legs. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN STAY HOME AND REST! GET EVERYONE TO THE POLLS! GOTV!!
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Smells like hope.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Vote Democratic!
bucolic_frolic
(43,144 posts)It really is foolish to not do your civic duty. Or to cast ballots for candidates you don't understand.
We have about as much civics literacy as personal finance literacy. Neither are taught anymore.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Initial vote showed a 2 vote margin. The recount doubled the margin to 4.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/16/nyregion/recount-shows-rep-gejdenson-wins-in-connecticut-by-4-votes.html
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)murielm99
(30,736 posts)crying foul, looking for irregularities. Do you think they will be able to succeed at this? Their obstruction should be kept in the news.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)next time you go to vote take 3 people with you.
I am going to try and do the same.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)maybe even a small portion of a vote compared to the votes of people in smaller and swing states.
That's the one exception.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)You ALL go to the poll together! No excuses! It's a family affair!
The family that votes together, stays together!
DFW
(54,369 posts)It costs me about $5 every time to mail in my absentee ballot (we get whacked for extra for those big envelopes), and it more often than not does no good. But some day it will. Maybe my vote will be the one that puts Beto O'Rourke over the top to displace Ted Cruz-you-lose in the US Senate. You never know, but I refuse to be the one who did NOT vote and let Cruz squeak back in by my one missed vote. I may be 5000 miles from Texas, but my voice WILL be heard.