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| | Vote! - Why your ballot isn't as meaningless as you think. By Jordan Ellenberg |
 | | Landsburg is arguing against voting, not chicken-dancing: Your presidential vote, he says, "will never matter unless the election in your state is within one vote of a dead-even tie." That, of course, is extremely unlikely. |
 | | But did you know that only 1,231,944 more Bob Dole voters, carefully apportioned among Nevada, Kentucky, Arizona, Tennessee, New Mexico, Florida, New Hampshire, Delaware, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, would have given their man the election, despite Clinton's lead of 8 million in the popular vote? |
 | | But if the electoral vote is sufficiently close, many states could be in a position to affect the national outcome. |
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