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In his own mind, if nowhere else.

No, it doesn't. Again, there's more on the ballot than the POTUS race. Beyond that, that kind of outlook is what depresses turnout and leads to your voice not getting heard because you assumed someone else was going to speak it for you. There's no sense in throwing out your vote over assumptions, and abrogating your voice because you're bloody lazy. Americans need to get out and vote.

There's not really much point in voting even if you are American, the polls are completely in favour of Hillary and apparently the lines in front of the voting stations are full of Hillary supporters.

More on those ballots than the POTUS race, and margins send a message regardless. There's pretty much always a point for americans to get out and vote, regardless of what the polls say.

... yeah, I'unno, I'm tired enough right now I sorta think I also don't give a shit about Poland if it cares so little about the rest of the world it can't see a difference between trump and the GOP vs clinton and the dems. But I'm sure the warmongering xenophobes trying to get a guy in office whose expressed economic desires boil down to "global recession at best" and whose diplomatic savvy currently extends to pissing off pretty much everyone except maybe russia would... somehow... not be substantially worse for y'all than the folks advocating general diplomatic outreach and economic policies that are actually at least tentatively tied to reality, headed by someone that has an actual history working with your government. Not sure how the mechanics work there but whatev'.

Not even a stupid good one, considering her first inclination in conflict keeps being trying diplomacy checks. Better at it than most of our bloody politicians, too, which says a hell of a lot considering how many circumstance penalties she's been taking due to the country's population dumping sense motive.

67% average isn't a good number for reliability.

If you said "My car doesn't usually break down and leave me stranded," I wouldn't want to ride in your car.

Well, yes, but if you claimed to be as reliable as your average car I probably wouldn't believe you. If I claimed that I would outright be lying to you -- cars can go years without substantial need for more than minor maintenance, and I damn sure can't. Humans are messy, inconsistent things, with lots of competing pressures. When someone's managing "more likely to do what they say than not" (particularly for projects as large and uncertain as generally dealt with by politicians), the word we use for that is reliable, at the very least more so than not, and generally with pretty specific areas they're likely to not be (i.e. predictable).

That's particularly true for anything even remotely complicated, especially if it's dealing with humans and competing interests to any extent. A lawyer that's batting two out of three isn't actually doing bad, and a politician is one of the few roles a person can take that is messier than that. Me, I'm pretty ruddy sure a roughly two-thirds average is solid for the kind of work involved with implementing campaign promises.

... really, suspicion and caution regarding the promises made by just about anyone dealing with subjects as complicated as politics (and any number of other things) isn't a bad thing. But there's that and then there's this damned ethos of utter and unthinking distrust that's a good chunk of what bought this bloody country this bloody election.

What politicians say is unreliable, and what they do isn't foreseeable. Might as well rely on endorsements.

Do we really have to keep saying that? Can we stop, yet? Blind trust isn't smart but belief in unreliability in the face of the flat fact that they're more reliable than not as a general demographic isn't either. Politicians aren't some kind of unknowable chaos beast incapable of being predicted, oddly enough.

Looking around, the answer seems to be about 212 fewer than 2012 or 2014. No clue about the site that comes from, though -- was just the first one that popped up giving a state wide total.

That said, marcopia county? Apparently the same number (720-ish, with some being in the same building -- 640 distinct locations) as last election. And at least ninety thousand more registered voters :V