The average vote does matter, it's what determines the electoral college.
Also it's only in the event of super close elections; if it's a clear landslide it wouldn't matter if you somehow won the electoral college
Well history has proven that you can win the popular vote and lose the election. One may ask why can this happen, the most popular candidate should win. This is false because the founding fathers did not trust the average voter and created the electoral college so the elite could decide the leader. This is a flaw in the democratic system because it basically says yeah you can vote but if we think your vote is badly placed for whatever reason we will decide the election results. And if it is a tie we will decide who wins in the house.
Yes the average person's vote does decide the allocation of electoral votes but not to the extent that it should.
Edited by The Dark Empire, 06 November 2012 - 03:47 PM.