To be honest, it's kind of pointless to vote for anyone anymore.
Lobbyists make laws, elected officials don't.
We don't have a Democracy, we have a Bribeocracy. Legislation is sold to the highest bidder.
And the sad thing is, it's probably no better anywhere else. If, for the sake of arguement, we were to take over Canada to start our own country after fleeing the oppressive U.S. regime ... in 30 or 40 years, we would have the exact same form of government. Think about it. We fled England over a 1% (ONE PERCENT) tax on income, and sales taxes applied to other consumables ... and had a subsequent "tea party" when they tried to tax that here. Animal Farm is non-fiction (heck Free Republic was founded as an answer to censorship on Compuserve, and today people wet themselves with glee as they sit back and wait for "Zots"). Everthing always eventually goes back to what it was created to correct.
Now look what we have. 50% of the average American's money going to the Government. It ALL goes back to the government eventually, since the same dollar is taxes each time it changes hands.
You know and I know that this isn't what the founding fathers had in mind.
It's an outright shame. But we did it to ourselves. We believed all along that we had one of two choices, and that anything outside of those two choices was a vote thrown away.
So special interests bought both main parties, and the only people you vote for every 4 years, is the guy who is going to take the bribes. We force the school system to tell our kids that they have to vote Democract or Republican, which ensures that nothing will ever change, and that those who can afford to buy the laws will always get their way.
The principals on which the country was founded wre great. Now we just live in a police state, bu with cool buzzwords like "Liberty" and "Freedom" while more of our citizens sit behind bars than any other country on the planet, including those in the third world. More laws on the books than any other country on the planet. Estimates are that every person breakes at least 5 laws per day.
When you make everything illegal, you can choose who to enforce laws against.
And so it is.
Go ahead, pull the lever for "Republican". Maybe gay people won't be able to get married, so your just going to have to take that victory and be happy with it. The border is still open, and taxes are still too high, but at least Janet Jackson can't show here tit on Television anymore. These are the victories we now rejoice over.