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You're right, the market intended for third parties has been attacked by both sides so often than only very rarely do we see a vialbe candidate for a major election. The fact of the matter is that it will take fundamnetal shifts in order to expand to a three, four, five party system. My hope is that, as has happened, people will hear my argument and actually think about what's best for the next 100 years of the US instead of the next 4. Voting for the leader of the country is about having a wide scope of vision. Sure I'd kill to get the troops home, and I'm sure voting for Obama would help that, but it's hardly that simple when including the whole scope of American government and politics. When I vote, I am thinking of my responsibility not only to myself and people in the present but everyone what will ever live in the USA. Supporting the two party system simply to vote against someone is a waste of my vote.
Besides, it's not up to me to decide how to properly market a candicate. The only time that wouyld enter my mind is if I were myself running or was helping someone to run. While that may be the case in the future, presently my voting is influenced by my responsibility to the present and future of my country and voting directly in those interests. I'm voting for the good future, not against the bad future.
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