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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 06 2018, @11:22PM
Yep, it's all BS... There was a Princeton study in 2014 that analyzed twenty years worth of data and concluded that our votes had little weight in the overall system. The first link below is to an article which does a decent job summarizing the study and provides some charts and images to help visualize things. I've also linked the original paper.
https://ivn.us/2015/05/07/voice-really-doesnt-matter-princeton-study-confirms/ [ivn.us]
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf [princeton.edu]