If you vote in the midterm election on November 2nd it is virtually certain that your vote will not change the outcome. Researchers studied 16,000 Congressional elections over a 100 year period and determined that only once was the winner decided by a single vote, which is 0.006% of the time. Whether you vote or not the same politician will be smiling at you from the morning paper. So in that sense your vote does not matter. And yet, the winner of the election will in fact be determined by vo...
