[pepsi_junkie]

Conservatives not voting in CA or NJ or NY or MA or IL or states like that is understandable given the futility of voting against dems in those types of states but I will never accept that staying home on election day is okay. If nothing else, people showing up could have made the numbers close enough to preclude this attempt to convince us all that Obama got a landslide mandate, that now has the political capital to stuff socialist stuff down our throats and congress needs to get out of the way.

[Axenolith]

NO! It’s NOT effing understandable! CA has a supermajority house and senate and prop 30 passed because of candy assed “our vote won’t matter” idiot stay at homes...

[KarlInOhio]

Conservatives not voting in CA or NJ or NY or MA or IL or states like that is understandable given the futility of voting against dems in those types of states

And if your "vote won't matter", then still come to the polls and vote for someone ideologically closer to your beliefs. I usually vote for the Republican if I expect a close election and the Libertarian if Ohio is looking guaranteed one way or the other. Even though I don't agree with the LP 100%, I'm still closer to them than the Gutless Old Party and I want the GOP hungry to get back the libertarians rather than trying to cross the aisle to their friends the Democrats.

[fifedom]

Conservatives not voting in CA or NJ or NY or MA or IL or states like that is understandable

Any California conservative who did not vote is a d*mned fool.

They helped the Rats pass a huge tax increase right away by approving Prop 30 and screwed taxpayers for years to come by getting a supermajority in the legislature.

For out-of-staters not familiar with Prop13, it requires a 2/3 vote in both houses of the legislature to pass a tax increase. Well, they are still counting but we know the Rats steal the close ones, so we are toast.

Goodbye Prop 13 and if that happens goodbye CA for me.

[Scotswife]

my vote never counts, but I vote anyway just to give the candidate an extra tally mark in the popular vote, and to watch my county turn red despite the blueness of the state.