While I do understand your point, you should consider walking that back a bit. I have always been irritated by the fact that the person who gets elected has to win by one vote – which means that, given significantly divergent policy agendas between two major candidates, almost exactly half the voters can end up unrepresented, in the sense that “their side lost”.
It looks a lot like a sport from that perspective – and even if you add in alternative voting schemes, it still works out to “this side ‘won’ and that side ‘lost’.” Lose out enough times and you become disenchanted with a system that just pushes you aside. And if you are not in one of the two major camps, why the fuck even bother if you know your candidate has no prayer of ‘winning’?