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How long is the voting window? Is it like 9-5?
It depends on the state. It does tend to be a bit broader than that and most states allow early voting.
However, red states tend to put more hurdles in to maintain their power, limiting polling access in working class districts, especially ones that aren't predominantly white. Forcing folks to stand in long lines or get across town to cast a ballot. Or scrutinizing and tossing out more mail in ballots in those districts over something petty. Folks don't have the spoons for that between bills, kids, work, and chores.
Also factor in that a lot of folks abstained because they know their state is already blue or red, and at least, in the swing state I live in, the turnout was actually very high.
Anyway, it's not as simple as 1/3rd of folks abstained. While I imagine some did, just out of apathy toward the federal government and not understanding how dangerous Trump is to our planet, it's just not the whole story is all I'm saying.
The US has a long history of making voting a privilege based on class. And while on paper it's not supposed to be the case, there are certainly mechanisms at play that disinfranchise folks who would likely otherwise vote.
I see your points overall but this one seems meaningless to me. This is the kind of apathy that got you here. Even if they're guaranteed to win any percentage of voters they lose is ideally one they'll appeal to next time.
Yeah, and if everybody did that then a blue state would get flipped to red. So I agree with you, I'm just sharing my understanding of the logic other people used.