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I am absolutely a non-voter. I am in a Dem majority county and state. So my vote does not matter in the slightest. A Rep flipping my area has about as much as a fart in the wind offending a bloodhound upwind.
All the more reason to vote in the Democratic primary, as that's your real election, then.
Nope, decided by delegates. I vote for who I want and the party decides who they want.
If elections were decided by popular vote, I would have more motivation.
The delegates are legally pledged to the popular vote winner though. Delegates pledged to a candidate who dropped out before the convention will typically vote for whomever their pledged candidate endorsed when they dropped out. If you're thinking of the superdelegates, they don't even get a vote unless the pledged delegates aren't able to elect a nominee in the first round (this change went into effect in 2018).
I will say it again, I am in a majority Dem county and state.
It doesn't matter who I vote for. It isn't like there are 2 candidates that are super close, one always has a majority right away and everybody knows who that it going to be.
If we look at 2016, Hilary was always going to win because Bernie was too far left(bad for business) and everybody else had about a snowball's chance of hitting the Sun from the part of Hell with dry heat. That same primary, Bernie nearly doubled Trump's votes.
2020? The Dems pushed for Biden as the great hope against the Armageddon that is a second Trump term and Bernie lost hundreds of thousands of votes. Biden nearly doubled Trump's votes.
2024? Biden got over 90% of votes because the orange man can't win or we all die and he will put trans kids and immigrants in camps with German engineered showers. Biden had double Trump's votes again, but got hundreds of thousands less votes than Hilary in 2016 and stepped down to make way for Harris, who only had a platform based on being a woman that isn't white and isn't Trump.
Literally no point in Me voting in national elections where I'm at.