Originally posted by Pyrosama
I agree.



You could always vote for Ralph Nader. He's announced that he'll be running as an independent. I hear most democrats are pissed at him for pulling some votes away from the democratic nominee. Oh well...such is politics.
The problem with voting for an independent instead of a 3rd party candidate (as Ralph was in 2000 with the Greens -- and the Greens are a whole other issue I intend to pick apart one of these days) is that independents are purely vanity candidates. 3rd party candidates are at least promoting their party, making it known that there are other organizations out there. And if they manage to get 5% of the vote they'll get more funds next go-round which can be used to build grass-roots support and get candidates elected in local positions which is the real way to build support and eventually maybe offer a real alternative.

The two party system we're in is very detrimental, in my opinion. I suspect that a system with more parties where the leader needs to build a coalition would be better. However, lots of countries have that too and I don't know for certain that they do better than we do.