http://openmarket.disqus.com/enFri, 01 Aug 2008 09:21:28 -0000http://www.openmarket.org/2008/07/31/the-near-impossibility-of-swing-voting-movie-spoiler-alert/#comment-2125668Obviously, this is a good place to make a plug for GMU Bryan Caplan's book The Myth of the Rational Voter. Caplan discusses precisely this issue - why people vote and why they vote the way they do, given that it is not in their self-interest. Caplan contends that the gains from voting - the probability of affecting an outcome times the magnitude of that outcome - are so ridiculously low as to be easily overridden by biases such as those "warm and fuzzy" feelings you speak of.Alex HarrisFri, 01 Aug 2008 09:21:28 -0000