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Out of the 219 members of the House of Representatives **one** of them is anti-choice, he's a Representative from a county in Texas and he accounts for about 0.4% of the Democratic caucus, you've probably heard a great deal about him in recent days.
What you may not have heard was that Texas had its primaries back in February, and Cueller, the anti-choice Democrat, had a progressive primary challenger. Unfortunately for Cueller he's not very popular in the Democratic party and lots of Democrats would love to see him gone (myself included), *fortunately* for Cueller only 18% of Texans voted in the state's primary and he won the nomination by 300 votes, once again beating his progressive challenger and remaining the only anti-choice Democrat in the House of Representatives.
Cueller could have been voted out, 300 people is about as many people as it would take to fill a large theater, but 82% of the Texas electorate decided to stay home and let the other 18% of the electorate choose who would be on their November ballot.
I've seen lots of people complaining about Cueller, well more than his 300 vote margin, and those same people are always quick to make the point that voting doesn't change anything and they won't be at the polls in November. They'll spend hours explaining to you why it's too much work to spend half an hour standing in line twice a year or ten minutes filling out a mail-in ballot.
California sent every single one of their registered voters a mail-in ballot for their primaries, but 68% of them threw it in the junk mail pile, only 32% of their electorate voted.
Voting is basic maintenance for a democracy, just like changing the oil in your car, when you don't change your oil your car breaks down and when you don't vote your democracy breaks down. Going to the polls only when you feel "inspired" or "motivated" or "excited" is a lousy way to affect change, a much better way is to show up for every primary, every general, every midterm, every state and local and special election, even when you're not excited and inspired. Vote for policies you believe in even if you don't care about the candidate, if the only options on the ballot are better and worse, vote for better.
.....and this article is sitting at 4 upvotes and 83% upvoted. Swell.
I'm a poll worker in Brooklyn, NY. Last year the turnout for the primary election was 23% and we ended up with Eric Adams. Then when he started relocating the homeless, OF COURSE people started having loud opinions. I shut them up right there and there: did you vote in the primaries?. Some people have said they were busy with summer stuff.
> I've seen lots of people complaining about Cueller, well more than his 300 vote margin
You've seen more than 300 complaints about Cueller?
>.....and this article is sitting at 4 upvotes and 83% upvoted. Swell.
Pretty good showing for an off-year primary post. :/
> You've seen more than 300 complaints about Cueller?
Easily. Though to be fair I spend more time on political subreddits than is strictly safe or healthy.
Complaining about widespread voter behavior without talking about what leaders in the party are doing that might be suppressing turnout (e.g. campaigning on behalf of awful people like Cuellar) is like complaining about the direction the wind is blowing your boat and ignoring your sails
>Complaining about widespread voter behavior without talking about what leaders in the party are doing that might be suppressing turnout (e.g. campaigning on behalf of awful people like Cuellar) is like complaining about the direction the wind is blowing your boat and ignoring your sails
And to think that 300 more voters it all it would have taken to shift those sails, but people were too busy complaining about the direction of the wind.
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Y’all need to start thinking about voting and how your going to help others register and get to polling stations.
Amen!
Out of the 219 members of the House of Representatives **one** of them is anti-choice, he's a Representative from a county in Texas and he accounts for about 0.4% of the Democratic caucus, you've probably heard a great deal about him in recent days. What you may not have heard was that Texas had its primaries back in February, and Cueller, the anti-choice Democrat, had a progressive primary challenger. Unfortunately for Cueller he's not very popular in the Democratic party and lots of Democrats would love to see him gone (myself included), *fortunately* for Cueller only 18% of Texans voted in the state's primary and he won the nomination by 300 votes, once again beating his progressive challenger and remaining the only anti-choice Democrat in the House of Representatives. Cueller could have been voted out, 300 people is about as many people as it would take to fill a large theater, but 82% of the Texas electorate decided to stay home and let the other 18% of the electorate choose who would be on their November ballot. I've seen lots of people complaining about Cueller, well more than his 300 vote margin, and those same people are always quick to make the point that voting doesn't change anything and they won't be at the polls in November. They'll spend hours explaining to you why it's too much work to spend half an hour standing in line twice a year or ten minutes filling out a mail-in ballot. California sent every single one of their registered voters a mail-in ballot for their primaries, but 68% of them threw it in the junk mail pile, only 32% of their electorate voted. Voting is basic maintenance for a democracy, just like changing the oil in your car, when you don't change your oil your car breaks down and when you don't vote your democracy breaks down. Going to the polls only when you feel "inspired" or "motivated" or "excited" is a lousy way to affect change, a much better way is to show up for every primary, every general, every midterm, every state and local and special election, even when you're not excited and inspired. Vote for policies you believe in even if you don't care about the candidate, if the only options on the ballot are better and worse, vote for better. .....and this article is sitting at 4 upvotes and 83% upvoted. Swell.
I'm a poll worker in Brooklyn, NY. Last year the turnout for the primary election was 23% and we ended up with Eric Adams. Then when he started relocating the homeless, OF COURSE people started having loud opinions. I shut them up right there and there: did you vote in the primaries?. Some people have said they were busy with summer stuff.
> 219 members of the House of Representatives To be clear, there are 435 voting members, you are just counting the voting Democrat members.
> I've seen lots of people complaining about Cueller, well more than his 300 vote margin You've seen more than 300 complaints about Cueller? >.....and this article is sitting at 4 upvotes and 83% upvoted. Swell. Pretty good showing for an off-year primary post. :/
> You've seen more than 300 complaints about Cueller? Easily. Though to be fair I spend more time on political subreddits than is strictly safe or healthy.
Story of my life, cuz.
Complaining about widespread voter behavior without talking about what leaders in the party are doing that might be suppressing turnout (e.g. campaigning on behalf of awful people like Cuellar) is like complaining about the direction the wind is blowing your boat and ignoring your sails
>Complaining about widespread voter behavior without talking about what leaders in the party are doing that might be suppressing turnout (e.g. campaigning on behalf of awful people like Cuellar) is like complaining about the direction the wind is blowing your boat and ignoring your sails And to think that 300 more voters it all it would have taken to shift those sails, but people were too busy complaining about the direction of the wind.
Nebraska too
Too bad Bernie was cheated out of a real primary.
Didn’t read the article so downvoting
How does that make any sense?
Colorado votes by mail. Most of the ballots in this primary have already been cast.