Rifleman
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Right now, there are 36 states that blindly vote for a letter. If you live in one of these states, your vote is worthless for POTUS. You have another 7 (TX, FL, NH, MN, VA, NM, OH) that lean towards a letter but wont blindly vote it. Your vote wont matter here as well since if these states are in play, one of the letters is far ahead. You have 7 states that will decide it.
And Cook Political only rates 26 House districts out of 438 as a toss up. So only 5.9% of Americans have a fair House race this time. They have just 16 others leaning one way or the other.
Despite this lack of competition, the DCCC and NRCC alone have raised at least a half billion dollars already. That doesn't include the vast sums the candidates in these non-competitive races have hauled in.
Both parties are bought and sold like commodities at this point, just with far less responsibility to the shareholders.