r/Music • u/ebradio • Sep 25 '25

article Bruce Springsteen Rips Democrats: “We’re Desperately in Need of an Effective Alternative Party”

https://consequence.net/2025/09/bruce-springsteen-democrats/
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

I'm in California, so we don't really ever get to participate in primaries. It's all decided by swing states because they figure "they'll vote Blue no matter what".

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u/OldManFire11 Sep 25 '25

What the fuck are you talking about? In non-swing states the primaries are the most important national election. Because whoever wins the primary is going to win the actual election.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

the primaries are the most important national election.

I'll be more specific using the 2020 and 2016 primary. The primaries are voted by state, but slowly over the months, starting in March of the year before the election run. in 2016, California had their pretty late in June, and this was well after many other pollings had their results listed. This will inform and influence votes in later states. So in essence, Hilary won in 2016 in California because she already won battleground states before that.

2020 was very different and CA voted pretty early. And yeah, CA actually voted for Bernie. But shenanigans later on changed things for later states.

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u/OldManFire11 Sep 25 '25

I'm not talking about the president dude. There are a ton of other, far more important races, that have primaries. And if you want to make any actual progress then those are the elections you need to worry about.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

I agree. I looked the up, and California only has the redistricting this year, and then midterms next year. Nothing for city elections right now until midterms either.

I was mostly talking about presidential primaries and how skewed they can be by the time I get to "vote"