America is NOT a democracy

What elections are those?

Turnout in mid-term elections is always low. Turnout in presidential elections is usually over 50%.

So your statement is more accurately put "70% of your citizens don't vote [in mid-term elections]"

If we keep voting liberal yep that?s what its headed to. Big government then they can control.

Don't look now, but the "conservative" administration that's been in the past 8 years (and the next 4 if McCain wins) have done more privacy invasion and spent more money than any previous "liberal" administration.

I?m not going to pretend I even know the extent of how far the government has gone into invading Americans privacy, I really don?t know. How ever I don?t think it?s a coincidence that we haven?t been attacked since 911.

It does seem however the more control the government gets the more they screw everything up. Yeah things like government health care, that scares the hell out of me. The liberal talking about everyone being equal? Well everyone is not equal. For example I in no way feel I should make what a Dr makes.

My point is it just seems everything the government get their hands on they f*** it up. (and that seems to be all parties)

Judging by the job done so far, I feel the smaller our government is the better off we will all be.

I agree 100%, which is why I specifically don't support McCain or Obama.

And why I didn't support Bush. Or Clinton. Or Kerry. Or Gore.

The Republican Party stopped being the party of small government after the first Bush.

It's anything but at the moment. Saying that you are a big supporter of small government after you proclaim to support Bush or McCain smacks of pure cognitive dissonance.

When I vote I always vote whom I think is the lesser of 2 evils.
I think Bush gets all the blame when its not all him. I don't think thats so fair. Not really a big McCain supporter either. But again the lesser of the two evils.

There are more than two choices.

Vote for the person you feel would make the best President. By the sound of your posts, you should be an ardent supporter of Ron Paul.

He's even from your own state.

I would if I didn't feel it would be a wasted vote.

Ron Paul wont win
even if almost ever American citizen votes for him.
Am I missing something Jon?
Since when has the average American's vote for the president counted for anything?

And yeah small government!
Despot for life, I vote me!

I always thought voting for a candidate of one of the two major parties was more of a wasted vote, unless you truly support that person 100%.

It won't be wasted because you'll be voting your conscience rather than for the lesser of two evils. If enough people vote for a write in, at least a message will be sent.

Wont it in fact be wasted,
you know? Since the popular vote doesn't really count for anything.

Voting for a third party candidate? It shows that a large amount of people support a candidate and hopefully draws attention to some of the issues that candidate is pushing most for. It is a voter voting for the person they'd most like to see in office, not settling for the lesser of two evils.

If they're both "evil" I wouldn't vote for either of them. But if I did for some reason, and the candidate I voted for won, I wouldn't consider it a "victory" for myself so I'm not really sure what I would gain from it.

No...voting for ANYONE in the presidential elections is a waste, I mean right? I was under the impression that the electoral college chooses the president. The popular vote is... I don't know, a pacifier?
It more important to vote in your local elections, props, ect. I mean at least then they count...

Um, the poular vote in each state is what determines the electoral vote.

You should learn about the process. Popular vote in each state determines that state's winner. Overall popular vote across the whole nation is meaningless.