Commentary
In graduate school, I encountered the disturbing theory that your vote doesn’t actually count for much. We have a winner-take-all system of voting in this country. That means that one vote for x is always canceled out by a vote for y. So a husband and wife who disagree might as well stay home.
I can recall as a kid that my mother told me that she and my father always voted the same way so that their votes would not cancel each other out. I remember being puzzled by that a bit. Something did not seem quite right about it all….