With the midterm elections just one week away, it might be wise to consider why we care so much about voting.
Several years ago, “Freakonomics” authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt claimed that voting is irrational, since the chance that any individual’s vote changes the outcome of an election is infinitesimal — out of more than 16,000 Congressional races between 1905 and 2005, only one was decided by a single vote.
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