i, Kev> Trouble is that US voting paterns are weird. The swing votes go to a sort of popularity contest triggered by any kind of October surprise, for example if Bush were to claim to have found weopons of mass distruction the day before the election, the swing votes would go to him, and then the next day he'd simply say, whoops, I was wrong, that was a can of bug repelant. Last week the numbers were dead even, 48% to 48% without Nader, with Nader, Bush would win.
Now for friends of mine, who say there is no difference, look at the supreme court. The next president may be appointing a majority, in which case, fair thee well 1st amendment rights in the forum of Religion, Political speach (lets not forget this is the administration which has refield the exact same charges against Lynne Stewart which the Federal Court through out as being to vague to distingish the "crime" from the expectations of adiquate legal representation by any lawyer...) good by fourth amendment rights and hello to a state where libraians are agents of Big Brother... fair well to Alaska wilderness, clean air, hello to wars of agression with no attempt at creation of a justification other than ... we don't like their government and WE think we can do better... well hell, if that is the kind of America you wish to live in, walk right up to the voting booth this year you have two ways to get it, vote for Bush or Nader.
Cheers
(and to quote the late Chief Moonface Bear of the Golden Hill Paugeesukq tribe, "This ain't the time to get stupid here..."
Larry