election demographics

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong:
>>  If you lived in Florida, I would say that your *individual* vote was
>>  *very* *very* substantial.
>
>On the contrary, before the votes are counted, one has only
>a certain probability of the election being decided by one's
>vote.  It is very, very low, events in Florida notwithstanding.
>If one pretends to rationality, one must find another reason
>for voting than its significance in deciding large elections.

If one is an anomic, isolated, Hobbesian individual, you are right.

You may be. But I'm not.

Brad DeLong