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let them vote.
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voting with your wallet only works in a well-regulated economy. pure "free-market" is bs.
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they're worried about elections.
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makes sense… she was hated in the primaries by her fellow democrat candidates.
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why would someone down vote this?
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i remember watching that episode as it aired and thinking that having people on the internet vote for the ending was pretty cool even for a silly gimmick. definitely the shape of things to come.
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a little truth medicine there about how young people don’t vote.
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they’re going to vote. are you???
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your vote will get my vote.
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why not all of it? personally i feel voting is bit limited. again, this is capitalist society. the more responsible consumers we have, the bigger impact we can have against shady ass corporations. we've been trying your suggestion since the beginning, and it hasn't got us very far, at all. it's time to make stances against stuff that might make our lives a hair more convenient, but will send a stronger message.
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if only gerrymandering and election fraud weren't such an issue.
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not only spending tax payers money to advertise in an election campaign, but also effectively paying bribes to media companies for good coverage.
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the current president lost the popular vote by million votes, but sure.
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donald trump gets re-elected (or finds a way to illegally stay in power).
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ay leave my veto alone.
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that was well said. the are so many things that have gotten to me. lately it's been this idea that only n95's are the only masks that work. although they may be the best, any covering is better than nothing. the world is slowly backing away from trying. i don't want to express hatred, but holding it in is not good either. i've been trying to back away from making cruel comments, but at the end of each day, i know that most naysayers will not learn, and a lot more people are going to get sick and die because of right wing politics. i voted republican my whole life and voted trump into office. all of this shit, the hatred, lying, the selfishness of the party has driven me far left of them. dump lying about the election, his shitty job on fighting the virus etc. they have made a mockery of christianity and democracy. i have become a deist. it has finally become political for me. their war against knowledge, science and reality is insane. the only thing stopping me from opening the floodgate of my opinion is the hca and reddit rules. i will say this in a way that preserves my membership here. if any person hates our democracy, our diverse people, and the general advancement of science, health and freedom, i feel that natural selection (evolution) will take it's course. i don't have to do or say anything, but get popcorn and watch. i will throw in smartass comments as i watch them lose their breath. i will watch their prayer warriors fail. these people may cause the extinction of humanity, but it is nice to see them go before we do. the rest of the creatures on this planet will benefit from that. i will wear my mask, get boosters, and social distance until the virus kills all of us, or science has a breakthrough. i have done something to fight the pandemic. i am the real patriot. lol. i am a liberal. they politicized it, and i have taken my side in this fiasco on mankind.
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great idea, i voted, hopefully he will win.
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... he didn’t win the popular vote by anything that would be remotely considered a landslide. his election ranks as one of the closest in history according to the electoral college.
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lib/centrist, i enjoy looking at both parties, then comparing and contrasting views/beliefs before deciding who to vote for.
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the reality is our voting system does not have any sort of foolproof oversight committee or transparency, and while i want to trust it, the reality is it can be fucked with quite easily given the money/power some people have. it's a shame, but it really does worry me sometimes that there's no way to actually 100% avoid that.
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sounds like time to vote ndp.
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gerrymandering has 0 effect on a statewide race like governor given it's a straight popular vote race. you just need enough people to vote, district lines don't matter. potentially other things to overcome (unequal distribution of polling places, resistance to mail in votes, etc.) but gerrymandering isn't one of them for governor.
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why is this post getting down voted?
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mcconnell is deeply shameless and spineless, but he's smart and he's seeing things clearly. he wants to keep trump's voters while someone else gets trump himself out of the way.
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looks like bernie supporters are prepared to again do what they the last time. bernie and whether he rallies his supporters or not may well determine the election. again.
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she didn't do the polling. yeesh...
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the real solution would be make mail in voting universal my hone state does it and you can vote any time after you’ve received it you just have to drop it off people can do it on their own time and companies can’t get in the way.
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the election being stolen? there’s tons of baseless claims and there’s only a finite amount of time any productive intelligent person can devote to fact checking the claims. it just ends in exasperation and those that believe the conspiracies are not malleable.
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more often than not the 2 are driven to vote the same tho. your not wrong tho it doesn't take much especially with some recent gerrymandering.
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i feel like yang is just trying to get exposure to ubi. the worse he can do now is just frustrate those who are already voting for him anyways. so why not try to get new voters in the process.
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a significant amount of relevant information was unavailable to mueller due to four factors. first, as the report states, “several individuals affiliated with the trump campaign lied to the office,” and “those lies materially impaired the investigation of russian election interference.” second, president trump’s interference in the investigation also appears to have stymied the investigation. a key example is paul manafort’s failure to cooperate with the special counsel because he was apparently led to believe that president trump would pardon him. third, some individuals used encrypted communications or deleted their communications. fourth, some of the individuals who “cooperated” with the investigation (e.g., steve bannon) appear to have been deceptive or not fully forthcoming in their dealings with the special counsel. several individuals failed to recall the content of important conversations with trump or other campaign associates. the report states, “even when individuals testified or agreed to be interviewed, they sometimes provided information that was false or incomplete.”.
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this way of voting should be in every state. we should demand it.
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i voted wrong.
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when did i say the election was stolen?
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still, with trump admitting he tried to overturn the election and offering pardons to the criminals i say vote blue until the right regains thier sanity.
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ranked choice voting is the only way for another party to start gaining power. people will be much more likely to vote a candidate they want knowing their vote will eventually go toward one of the winners.
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well i mean of course you can vote for whoever you want. they are being pragmatic and making sure they put their hand on the scale for the person that has the greatest chance in preventing the other most likely candidate from winning. until we get ranked choice voting this is likely to be the case for the foreseeable future.
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this is true, but there’s also a lot of people in safe states who don’t vote because their state is safe, but would vote under a different system where their vote mattered.
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... he didn’t win the popular vote by anything that would be remotely considered a landslide. his election ranks as one of the closest in history according to the electoral college.
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voted for one of you.
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i consider myself conservative, but i could vote both ways depending on the choices.
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i'm looking forward to vote with you.
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it’s in the report. and the mueller report does confirm russian interference in the election heck a simple google search and you would even read this on the wikipedia page. all i’m saying here is directly out the mueller report.
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it really sucks. mcconnell has the power to obstruct democratic legislation in the senate, only 48 out of 50 democratic senators are in favor of revoking that power, and until the balance of power shifts mcconnell will be able to get wins by preventing democrats from passing the kind of motivational and inspirational legislation that democratic voters say they need to see in order to vote.
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we will vote.
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hey, guess what society decided? they can vote! if you're still against it, go ahead and ask yourself why you hate democracy.
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they posted the next round of polls.
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the fact that he’s likely to improve turnout in the general doesn't have much to do with whether or not he'll win the primaries.
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biden needs to stop with the gaffes in his campaign if he wants to be the nominee. that will kill him vs trump if that's what happens. stop insulting voters who ask tough questions.
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claiming the election was stolen.
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and yet that's what the unionists latch onto for their argument. i suppose the tories can't come outright and say the real reason for no referendum, their incapable of telling the truth. you have proven my point its a trap that either way it suits the unionists.
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referendum takes time and is easily affected by propaganda, threatening etc. i think time maybe is the most important thing here.
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don't vote for just anybody. but vote blue. we don't need another conservative piece of shit in office.
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this is highly disingenuous. the hillary poll was from well before this point, iirc before the nominations were locked up and a lot of gop were still hoping for somebody else.
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so even if i voted, the outcome is bad, and my vote didn't matter anyway.
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voting biden undermines our power as progressives. you wrote a ton to say very little. the ideas are incredibly stupid. "clown on him" lol.
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\ unrestricted political adverts, with the knock on effect of making money incredibly important in elections, and in doing so increasing the chances of politicians being beholden to those who contribute to their funding.
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biden won't win. i don't care what the polls say, he's screwing up worse and worse practically every day, and unlike trump's shenanigans in the gop primary that's going to turn left voters off. but if he does get the nomination somehow, he loses to trump. he's one of the only top dems who can lose.
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blacks have been beaten and killed because of their race, denied the right to vote and prohibited from living in certain neighborhoods. they were and still are discriminated against in the workplace and prevented from earning fair and equal pay.
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referendum is the mandate. keep up.
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we will vote.
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biden is the 100 people dead, trump is objectively worse and voting 3rd party helps trump win. do you see why i am voting biden even tho i despise him? it’s because harm reduction matters.
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why did this get down voted?
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so the argument here is that the state is making it easier for predominantly democratic voters to vote, easing their burden and granting them convenience, without doing so uniformly throughout the state.
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here's the thing: people will only vote for someone they know and like.
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trump will probably get reelected.
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of course he won't. the point is that in that situation trump is already looking at a guaranteed re-election.
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the democrat wants to keep this victim mentality going so the black would vote for them because they're telling them nice things while blaming republicans for racisms, and the white people get to show how "not racists" they are just by simply supporting democrats. they're going out of their way to make everything about racism so that they don't have to do anything to get votes. you can't solve a problem that barely exists on a systemic level. and it is the same reason why the hollywood elites and all the establishment love this kind of bullshit coming from the left.
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not only spending tax payers money to advertise in an election campaign, but also effectively paying bribes to media companies for good coverage.
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"the report has two parts addressing the two main issues we were asked to investigate. the first volume of the report details numerous efforts emanating from russia to influence the election. this volume includes a discussion of the trump campaign's response to this activity, as well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy." - no collusion.
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not all of us are idiots. vote blue.
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i see people swapping their "choice" and abandoning who they thought was the best candidate simply because of the polls prior to anyone actually casting a vote in the primaries.
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there was a poll?
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let's make sure win or lose we give him and all our special election nominees a fighting chance! donate to voteblue's special elections fund!
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all these lobbies and more contribute handsomely to the re-election campaigns of federal politicians.
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vote here!
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gun owners who vote for the dems are like fudds, but worse. though conservatism vs liberalism doesn't trouble me at all, since i'm a single-issue voter. none of this partisanism affects me. whoever doesn't promise a gun ban automatically gets my vote.
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thank you, pholobodob, for voting on iamyodabot.
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he got a ton of real votes in the primaries. there are a lot of people who genuinely think him better than the other alternatives, but they’re not widely represented on reddit.
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and well, england/wales decided to vote for brexit despite knowing it would likely destabilise the uk just 2 years after scots were told vote no to stay in the eu.
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and in regards to "rigged election" claims:
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trump rode a surge of racism and populism to an unlikely nomination and a win that would have been impossible without foreign interference, voter suppression, and democratic ineptitude. biden, on the other hand, is the party's heir presumptive, essentially a candidate designed by committee.
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many unionists also immediately went and voted for brexit, despite being warned that would destabilise the uk and directly hand the independence supporters a reason why 2014 could be re-run. now, it was mostly english unionists, 62% of scotland voting remain means there was a decent chunk of yes and no voters working together to oppose brexit, but they warned as well. even now, english brexit voters could change their minds, but apparently labour can't even support rejoining the single market or 'middle england' will go vote tory.
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what still blows my mind is how many good candidates were in the republican primaries that election.
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they already have a huge imbalance in the electoral college and senate, might as well try to grift this system too.
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another fuck around and find out candidate.
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yeah, allowing a couple weeks to vote by mail in all states would be far more beneficial.
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she won my vote because cg2.
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the point is people like this can vote and do vote.
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this is fucking absurd. bernie was leading warren in the polls by a huge margin up until recently. he is one of the frontrunners no one hates bernie. [he’s the most popular second choice of warren supporters]( notice that biden was the most popular second choice for bernie supporters even before biden started running.
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i guess look for a candidate that will coddle you and coo soft nothings into your ear then you literal fucking infant. also, you understand that what your saying you want to happen does happen (except within the realm of actual possibility, you're literally the kind of myopic dolt who needs to see practically immediate change to improve the world) and your alternative ("the world is ending and it's your fault, now go tell your friends and family the same thing, make sure to blame them, and shout at them to get their act together in order to prevent something instead of achieve something.", complain more about strawmen btw jfc) is being said by nobody? also sorry people are telling you not to make things actively worse, ig your preferred policy is "dont fuck up the earth, and here's a gold star for being such a good not-active-piece-of-shit!".
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but we have the electoral college.
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probably a new president in the us will get elected, unless...
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i get what you're saying but my point still stands. gerrymandering is a huge problem but it isn't the only problem, the fact that someone like trump can even get close to 50% of the votes is a problem.
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this is all fine and good except for 2 things: 1- nothing has changed ot will for the 2020 election as far as the electronic baloots. 2- the dnc still runs the show. if they dont want bernie for a candidate then guess what's going to happen? yeppers--they will not nominate him. thats why bernie has essentially fucked himself with this election. he is flying under the democratic banner instead of independant. their party means their rules people----same as last time and same as next time. why berners dont know this is beyond me.
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i'm in my 30s now and was barely in school during the lewinsky stuff. i've been voting for more than a decade. that's like me still admiring guiliani cuz he made moving speeches post 9/11.
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why did this get down voted?
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i stayed home to fill out my ballot but had to leave and put it in my mailbox. love ca mail in ballot. you can send it in as soon as you get it. and check to make sure your vote went where you wanted it.
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well... when i first came into this post, all i saw was the first top-level comment calling tory voters.
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i’m not going to waste my vote for a specific party, just because omg the libtards. i’m voting for the person, who i share common values and policies with.
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