2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yeah, in connection with Yavin4's thread on Hillary Hate [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)Clinton can't win my state in the general election*. If Clinton is the nominee, our electors will go to the Republican.
As a result, the only meaning left in my vote is idealism. Either Clinton manages to win my vote, or she doesn't. In either case, I can not affect the outcome of the election.
The vast majority of DUers are in the same situation, and you completely ignore that. Most of us live in states where there is no doubt which party will win. SC is going to vote for the Republican. CA is going to vote for the Democrat.
What you are telling people is that you want to remove the only remaining point for them to go to the polls. That they must abandon any meaning in their vote, and toe the party line when they are fully aware that their vote "won't count".
Let them have their personal stand at the top of the ballot. It gets them in the booth for all the other races on the ballot, and they can't change the outcome at the top anyway.
*(Sanders has a very slim chance to win my state, but there are easier states to win in order to get to 270 electoral votes. So it is extremely unlikely that he'd put in the necessary resources to win my state.)