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Connor Mcilhinney on Local Politics Matter
Connor Mcilhinney
Local Politics Matter
Claims and stances
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Connor Mcilhinney strongly supports: Local government decisions have a more immediate and personal impact on an individual's daily life than national political decisions.
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Connor Mcilhinney strongly supports: The high prevalence of uncontested local races leads to a public perception that individual votes do not matter, which further diminishes civic engagement.
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Connor Mcilhinney strongly supports: Individuals who identify specific issues within their local government, such as school management or urban planning, should take direct action by running for office in uncontested races.
Transcript
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I agree with you, Thomas.
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I think you make some great points.
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I think people put a l lot of time and thought into their national politics, but they don't really look at local politics, which affects them in many greater ways that they don't even understand or or see.
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And I think another major reason with this is because um I think it was ballotpedia discovered that 70% of races nationwide uh run uncontested.
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So a lot of people think, oh, if I vote Democrat in a blue state, like my vote's not gonna matter.
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If you vote for a local uncontested rate uncontested race, your vote really doesn't matter.
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Um and I think people who see issues within their local government system with the way their schools are being ran, with the way that maybe their city's deciding to build uh a bunch of c um cement everywhere instead of beautiful parks.
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Uh I think people need to take more action and I think people need to run in these uncontested races uh to make a difference.