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One. I don't consider it voting, I consider it electing, and electing the people that will get to vote is just too far removed from relevancy for me to care.
Two. By participating, I tacitly agree to abide by the outcome. I don't like the game, I don't like the rules, and I don't agree to abide by the outcome.
Three. The two party system is a farce.
Four. In an elected representative democracy, demogoguery, spin and appearance is more valuable than administrative skill.
Five. Aside from a propensity to preemptively invade helpless countries, the candidates are pretty much interchangable. And who knows, Kerry might have invaded Iraq too if he had the chance. It's easy to oppose it now with the benefit of hindsight and the increasing unpopularity of the war. The opposition takes up contrary positions to the administration because they are the opposition, not because they'd do things differently if they had the chance.
Six. I've never lived in a state where it would matter.
Regardless of who wins this election, I'll go about my life just the same as before. I do like testing my prognostic skills on the presidential election though. It's kind of like how John Maynard Keynes compared playing the stock market to guessing the winners of a beauty contest not by picking the contestants you find the most attractive, but by picking the contestants you believe that the judges will find the most attractive.
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