If I was able to vote in it, I could not in good conscience vote for either Obama or Romney, but that doesn't mean I couldn't find other individuals to vote for on the lower levels. It isn't just a question of voting for the one person who will be president.

Curiously enough, we do NOT vote for the "leader" in Canada at all. We vote for the local candidates of the various parties, not for the party leaders themselves. The leader of the winning party then becomes the Prime Minister, but only the people in his local riding actually voted directly for him (or her). Nevertheless, our elections are conducted as if we were all voting for the party leaders, so in a psychological sense, that is pretty much what is happening.

I'm not campaigning for either side, Bobert. You are campaigning for one side. That's why we see the situation differently. You're treating it as a partisan matter, I'm not. How can you reconcile the fact that Mr Obama has brought in even more draconian domestic legislation (the NDAA) than Bush ever dared to do?

Here is Rachel Maddow's take on that: Rachel Maddow talks about Obama and the NDAA

She's concerned about it. Rightly so! How about you? What would you have said if George Bush had been the man who enacted such patently unconstitutional and oppressive domestic legislation as the NDAA? Or if Romney did? You'd be very upset... But what about when Obama does it? Is it somehow "okay" to enact fascism when a Democrat does it....as long as the Republicans aren't the ones who do it?

Partisan mind. It turns the blind eye when its own party takes it down the road to what it would find totally unacceptable and outrageous, were the other party to do it.

That's how those 2 parties have you in their grasp. And they are both taking you very clearly down the road to a totalitarian state. Do you really think that supporting either one of them is going to preserve your vanishing freedoms?

In an American election I would vote for individuals I believe in and trust...if there were any such individuals named on the ballot. I do not believe in or trust Mr Obama or Mr Romney. I might find someone else to believe in on your ballot, though...and if so, I'd vote for them...regardless which party they were in.