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Whom Should You Vote For? Don't be just a 'political hobbyist' (billhulet.substack.com)

submitted 6 months ago by randy@lemmy.ca to c/politics@beehaw.org

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"My experience is that most of the people who get really upset about the current leadership of our nations tend to be folks who haven’t spent much time either as an activist or as someone working for a candidate. What happens instead is they immerse themselves in on-line news and commentary."

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[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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I tend to vote most idealistically in local races, and most strategically in top line races. With local ones I can also have an outsized impact on the folks who are voting in those races by volunteering or even just (at minimum) talking positively about a given candidate to those who are on the fence or those who vote but don't spend the same time I do researching positions. It's my feeling that producing a major shift in policy is most achievable by a surge in local voting, due to the brittle nature of political strategies that rely on low engagement.