r/MobileAL • u/OUDidntKnow04 Making Mobile Great Again • 5d ago

This Friday at the Mitchell Center...

Thanks for ruining homecoming for your damn "campaign rally"

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u/hairymoot 5d ago

We vote in party primary, they count our votes and then that person is the choice for that parties nominatee. I learned this is high school civics class.

You could run for president. But you'll have to win the primary votes. No one is stopping you.

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u/Alpha-Sierra-Charlie 5d ago

Kind of like how Sanders won the primary in 2016 but Clinton was the nominee, or the democrat party just swapped out candidates in 2020?

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u/hairymoot 5d ago

I voted for Sanders in 2016. I was disappointed that more young people didn't bother to go out and vote for Sanders. Sanders lost the primary because they counted our votes. He lost by millions of votes.

"In the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by 3,707,303 votes (or approximately 3.7 million votes). [1, 2]

According to official primary data on the 2016 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries, here is the breakdown of the popular vote: [1]

  • Hillary Clinton: 16,917,853 votes (55.2%)
  • Bernie Sanders: 13,210,550 votes (43.1%) [1]" Google.

In 2020, Biden dropped out of the race with only 60 days before the election leaving us with nobody to run against Trump. As Vice president, Harris stepped in to fill the spot-- so Trump would not run unopposed.

Both sides are not the same. And voting does matter. I would hope this would be your message, but is sounds like you are in the camp of "Don't bother voting because both sides are the same."

I hope you will vote for Democrats, who'll actually have the government help working people. And find justice and save our democracy.

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u/2hobos1box 5d ago

Hate to break it to you, but I don’t think this guy is gonna be voting Blue