Don, you may be a sheep, I'm not. I don't delude myself that I'm voting a president in.

And I don't just wave the flag of the party 'I always vote for', or 'my parents voted for', or 'the one that makes feel clever and superior' - I think before I vote, and I make informed decisions about who to vote for. I don't care about Big Brother, or X-Factor, or Cheryl Cole, or David Beckham, or which party-leader looks best on the telly, or who I think is most likely to win - I care about which party presents me with what I feel are the best policies, and that's who I vote for. If they don't win, that's OK - it's not a wasted vote, it's a vote which tells the other parties that I, at least, use my brain at the election and that they didn't persuade me to have faith in them.

That is indeed it!