Close shaves

For the 30-40% of you that won't bother to vote, consider this:

Martin VanBuren won the Presidency by one vote, back in the days when votes were on paper and you couldn't blame machines for errors. According to the N.Y. Times, Henry Clay cast the deciding vote in the Constitutional Convention which admitted Kentucky to the Union as a slave State. If Kentucky had entered the Union as a free State, there may have been no Missouri Compromise, perhaps no Civil War. Not impressed? Try this: Tim Lincecum won the Cy Young Award in a race where only 10 points separated the top three vote-getters. That 10-point margin from first to third place is the second-closest margin ever, in a National League ballot.

So if you are avoiding going to the polls because you think one vote won't change things - better think again!