I will argue that your votes were not wasted. The candidates for which you voted that were not elected simply they did not have the political strength to win.
Politics is the art of the possible.
It turns out that what you voted for was just not possible
“It turns out that what you voted for was just not possible”
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WRONG. One of the last Senators I voted for was one of those that joined with the left on bills such as gun control so it would pass. He was a supposedly strong conservative. The last year he was in office he really showed his true colors.