It's going to be either Romney or Obama, end of story.
And it's really sad that no third party has any chance in this so-called democracy. Perhaps if we had run-off elections like they do in France, that would be a step in the right direction.
But then again, it's all about money. And the big boys have all the money.
We live in a republic, not a democracy.
"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction." -- Fisher Ames "The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness, which the...ignorant believe to be liberty." -- Fisher Ames "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." -- John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763
It is very important for Romney to have some kind of challenge from the right. He has already floated some serious left-wing trial balloons:
gay adoption
gay couples
abortifacients
partial ObamaCare
He will soon begin talking about “revenue enhancement”, another “blessing” he brought to Massachusetts.
If nothing else you should be telling pollsters you support the CP. Someone needs to make him nervous, and to do so they need a big enough % to make him wonder if they’ll cause him to lose.
It will prevent him sliding too far to the left.
The Republican Party being unable to obtain the presidency with an unpopular, even despised Democrat in office after having moved to the left brings about the end of the Republican party and creates a power vacuum for stronger conservatism.
End of story.