The Clintons, Russia, Uranium One corporation, and M-O-N-E-Y

[Ming]

MrFun, the Electoral College renders your vote essentially meaningless, because California is going to go overwhelmingly blue. Hence your proportionally-represented vote will be given to the Dem candidate no matter whom you vote for. Unless, for some unfathomable reason, almost exactly half your state goes red, and almost exactly half goes blue, and your one vote might tip the balance. But you're not in a swing state so it doesn't matter. Your vote is a fart in the wind.

Exactly like Illinois... It really doesn't matter who I vote for in the presidential election. Fortunately, my vote does matter in many other contests.

[Donegeal]

Yep, which is why I love that my vote matters because Wisconsin is a battleground state.

Lets see if I'm still glad I'm in a battleground state 10 months from now when I feel like gouging my eyes out from all the damn political commercials.

[regexcellent]

Your local elections do matter a lot too, as the administration is discovering to its woe now that Republicans have most state legislatures and governors' mansions, plus majorities in both houses of Congress. If they win the White House and hold the Senate in 2016, they'll be running this place from tip to toe.

[spambot]

MrFun, the Electoral College renders your vote essentially meaningless, because California is going to go overwhelmingly blue. Hence your proportionally-represented vote will be given to the Dem candidate no matter whom you vote for. Unless, for some unfathomable reason, almost exactly half your state goes red, and almost exactly half goes blue, and your one vote might tip the balance. But you're not in a swing state so it doesn't matter. Your vote is a fart in the wind. If you insist on wasting time and gas money on voting, write-in Conan the Barbarian or whatever. It's all the same.

You're assuming popular vote totals don't have any propaganda value.

[Elok]

You're assuming popular vote totals don't have any propaganda value.

Well, if Fun gets a thousand people to vote his way, it might almost affect the popular vote totals enough for anyone to take note. But not really. Hell, even without the EC, this country is so big that voting only offers the illusion of power. Possibly not on a very local level, depending on voter turnout. But for President, certainly, the numbers are so huge that I "might" affect the election in a sense significantly less meaningful than that in which I "might" win the lottery.

[C0ckney]

Hell, even without the EC, this country is so big that voting only offers the illusion of power.

you have discovered the secret of representative democracy.

[Elok]

Okay, so what buildings and units did I unlock? Or does this sort of thing come with gold and quest EXP?

[regexcellent]

New civic; +3 happy faces in 6 largest cities and +3 beakers per specialist.

[Berzerker]

crook

and she voted to invade Iraq so she could run for Prez

[Elok]

Oh yeah. I tended to play mostly Sword of Islam towards the end there, before I uninstalled the whole thing for taking over my life.

XPost

[C0ckney]

Okay, so what buildings and units did I unlock? Or does this sort of thing come with gold and quest EXP?

unfortunately all the bonuses are illusory, but you do get a vague feeling of having done something useful.

[jsorense]

Yes! I always wanted to vote for a candidate that has ZERO chance of winning the presidential election.

I did vote for George McGovern. Too bad his WWII record wasn't publicized.

[jsorense]

Exactly like Illinois... It really doesn't matter who I vote for in the presidential election. Fortunately, my vote does matter in many other contests.

Local elections are so important, and fun too.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yes! I always wanted to vote for a candidate that has ZERO chance of winning the presidential election.

You voted for John Kerry, didn't you?

[The Mad Monk]

Only for VP.

...so youre warming to him!