Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.
If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.
It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding.
Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for Trump out of white solidarity or out of frustration that they're, quote, unquote, "losing their country. " And my concern with that is that it sort of reduces the condition of the Trump voter to one of pure ignorance. And I think it's far more complicated.
A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.
We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.
You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.
Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.
I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.
Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable. . . It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.
We have to have a shared prosperity. We have to make that our job number one. People want a better economic playing field for working Americans. And they're voting for it. Our job is to make sure that people know that the Democratic party is the party that is going to deliver that for them. And that means strengthening the grassroots. That means strengthening the local precinct county level and making sure that we're all channeled on massive turnout for that program.
Elections matter and voting counts.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.