You may well be one of the people who are inclined to get out and vote enthusiastically and vehemently for the lesser of two evils, but you don't have a lot of company. Most will just stay home.
And yes, they can still complain. Such a tired bromide, this idea that if you don't cast a vote you don't have standing to complain. There are as many people who don't vote as there are people who do vote. The candidates are trying to get those people out to the polls. If they can't convince them to vote, they deserve whatever opposition comes toward to them. The decision to not cast a vote is every bit as important as the decision to cast one.
If you don't think having a black president represents progress in this country, I don't know how to respond to you. It would be extraordinary progress, especially when considered against electing a 70-something white man.
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