Agreed. This past election definitely show you what the political lean of the United States of America is, for better or worse.
I'm not even talking about that. I think the country is fairly evenly divided. Almost a full 50% will be pissed off regardless of who wins.
What I'm talking about is how the system is set up so that votes don't really matter that much. In most states, the election is just a formality, the decision is all-but-assured well in advanced. I live in Illinois, so I know my vote is going democrat every presidential election whether I like it or not. Someone in Texas is always voting republican. Done deal.
In swing states, votes
kind of matter, but only a little bit. Even if Romney had won Florida
and Ohio, he'd have
still lost the election. Without those two states, Obama would have still had 285 electoral votes. Romney lost the popular vote by 5 million votes or so in total, or in other words, by the combined amount of votes he lost New York and California by.
In order for an illegal vote to make any difference, it has to be coupled with
hundreds of thousands of
other illegal votes (If not millions of illegal votes) in a state where votes actually matter a little bit. Illegal votes in Illinois? As worthless as the legal votes in this state. In Texas? A pointless exercise in mental masturbation. In Ohio, there's an outside chance it could affect that state's outcome as long as you got about 200,000 of them, but that
still might not make any difference at all as far as the election goes.
The whole "illegal votes" thing is a load of nonsense. It merely gives the illusion that our votes matter, when they do not.