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[PDittie]

63. Good advice from others already

-- Vote anyway for down ballot races; Congress; statehouse, county courthouse, municipal posts, perhaps constitutional referenda (especially in CA where those are so powerful and binding as to law). Those offices in many ways are more directly related to you and your life than the White House.

-- As your presidential vote has no affect on whom California's Electoral College representatives will elect the president (just as mine in Texas will be equally meaningless) your conscience is clean to vote your progressive principles. There are in fact only seven states that are swingy at the moment.

I'm not telling you who to vote for...

... But a vote for presidential write-in candidate in CA's general election appears to be invalid, according to my understanding of the law from here and here (scroll all the way to the bottom at both links, and get some advice from a CA election law attorney if you have other questions). So don't write in Bernie's name in November; it won't count. You can skip the top race by leaving it blank (aka undervoting), but my personal POV is that is not a good way to send a message.

-- Stick around! You've got a hell of a Senate race going out there, and there will be others, like John McCain's close contest in AZ to monitor or help with in some way (like phonebanking or contributions or such).

-- Simply ignore the blame shaming, "Trump thanks you", "B-B-B-But SCOTUS" crap that will fly around here for the next six months (and forever after if Clinton snatches defeat from the jaws of victory). If Clinton loses, it won't be because you didn't vote for her in California or because I didn't in Texas.

In fact, with 247 EC votes already in the (virtual) can, if she loses it's all on HER. But that's a blame game for another day...