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I think saying you’re “holding your nose” to vote for a presidential candidate is just a weird way to put it. What you’re doing is voting for someone who you don’t entirely agree with because of the only two options that will come to pass, you know one is better than the other. It’s the same thing most of the

I wish it was a surprise that all the female staff are upfront about voting for Hillary while a lot of the (mostly white) male staff either aren’t voting for either candidate because they’re not in a contested state or have to “hold their nose” to vote for her.

I would urge the Deadspin staff (and anyone else, really) that feel they are in “safe” states to vote for Hillary anyway. There is a difference between barely fending off fascism, and repudiating it forcefully, and the more bigly Trump’s loss, the more forcefully we repudiate fascism.

It’s astonishing isn’t it?

“Voting is fine, but it’s not enough about me. How can I make it less about other people and more about my perception of myself?”