Your vote matters on the State level...
So yes your vote matters, so make sure your candidate win your state...
Sort of...in at least 2/3 of the states the outcome is not really in question so does that vote really count?
Exactly, it doesn't. Anybody in a so-called "red" or "blue" state --- two terms which would not even exist without the bullshit WTA/EC system --- has no reason to vote at all. They can vote with their state, against their state, third party, or not bother to vote at all and the result is exactly the same in each case. Masses of voters (or "mobs" as the unwashed like to th=ink of them when they're in the other camp) figure that out and don't bother, because it's a waste of one's time.
The WTA/EC system with its bullshit "red" and "blue" and "swing" states serves to dichotomize and divide the nation, presenting the bullshit illusions of "red states" and "blue states", as if Rump had no voters in California, as if Clinton had no voters in Texas. We see the results right here on this board when knuckledragger posters start puking up concepts of "the deep blue state of Illinois" or whatever. That whole operation needs to go yesterday. Divided is how we fall.