Take the Anchor or Porn Star Test
Don’t forget to vote.
Everybody bellyaches about how crappy the two parties are. So they don’t vote as a form of protest or because they think their vote won’t matter because they live in a solid blue or red state.
In States where it’s overwhelmingly going to one party (ie. NY is a blue state) it makes little difference if you vote for a Dem or Rep. But it makes a huge difference if you vote for a 3rd party, because your vote shows up statistically as growing support for 3rd parties. Groups like Libertarians or Greens don’t get taken seriously because their candidates get so few votes and thus they get so little press coverage and campaign donations. So if you’re mad at how both the Rep and the Dem’s have served themselves and got us into this war and financial mess, then vote 3rd party.
Me I’m voting Libertarian. Any party that’s for holding people accountable for their actions (and not just scapegoats), reducing taxes and Fed spending and legalizing pot sounds good to me: http://www.lp.org/issues/crime-and-violence