An Open Letter on the 2012 Election to Anxious Liberals With Radical Friends
If you’re a liberal trying to consider a radical friend to vote to save Obama, consider this…
There are only eight states where voting for president matters this year. If your friend doesn’t live in one of them, chill out. Have the discussion if you like, but don’t get angry. Voting for president in a safe state is a purely symbolic act, and life’s too short to damage friendships over acts of electoral symbolism.
And as for those eight states? One of them is Ohio, where progressive Senator Sherrod Brown is in a tight race. If your friend lives there, go with that.
Then there’s Wisconsin, where progressive Tammy Baldwin is running to be the nation’s first openly gay
There are only eight states where voting for president matters this year. If your friend doesn’t live in one of them, chill out. Have the discussion if you like, but don’t get angry. Voting for president in a safe state is a purely symbolic act, and life’s too short to damage friendships over acts of electoral symbolism.
And as for those eight states? One of them is Ohio, where progressive Senator Sherrod Brown is in a tight race. If your friend lives there, go with that.
Then there’s Wisconsin, where progressive Tammy Baldwin is running to be the nation’s first openly gay