"I dislike both candidates equally on various levels that I don't even think I can bring myself to vote when the elections roll around."

This goes through my head every time I have voted since I started voting years ago.

"I think Obama's diplomacy is sorely needed at this time, however, to put this country back in a positive international limelight once more, but his socialist agenda and anti-Second Amendment stance put me off in the deep end."

Obama does seem to be pretty radical in those views. It is a pretty big part of the Democratic agenda. Unfortunately, if he wins with a majority Democratic house and senate, our political agenda will be way too polarized to the Democratic side. This is why I will probably vote for John McCain since I hope it will somewhat keep things in balance.

If you look at politics over the last 16 years it has been highly polarized to the republican side of the scale. We first had George Bush Sr. who obviosly is a republican, and hated the middle east as much as his illiterate son does. Then we had Clinton, who while being a democrat, was more controlled by the republican party due to the fact that at the time of his presidency the House of Representatives and the Senate were under a republican majority. And now we have George Bush Jr... I think it is high time we put our country's checks and balances system back into effect and get a democrat in office to hopefully tip the scales. Even if it is only a little bit.