Back in the early days of my career in management accounting, I remember being in a meeting to review the monthly financial statements with my boss.  He was asking about some small expenditures and I noted that they were small items, just “peanuts” as compared to the whole.  To which he replied, “Peanuts make elephants.”  I’ve never, in all these years since, forgotten that offhand comment and I find use for it more often than you’d think.  It came to mind again this morning as I read a post by our friend, Annie, about voting and how yes, your single vote really DOES matter!  I’ll let Annie explain …