Between a Rock and Hard Place
It's a tough political world for us libs these days. On the one "side" of the aisle there's Warmonger McCain who plans to follow in Bush's steps for the most part, and the other mainstream choice is Barack Obama, whose less-than-liberal side is starting to show through now that Clinton is out of the race:

Demonstrating that this is no mere spring fling, he has appointed 37-year-old Jason Furman to head his economic policy team. Furman is one of Wal-Mart's most prominent defenders, anointing the company a "progressive success story." On the campaign trail, Obama blasted Clinton for sitting on the Wal-Mart board and pledged, "I won't shop there." For Furman, however, it's Wal-Mart's critics who are the real threat: the "efforts to get Wal-Mart to raise its wages and benefits" are creating "collateral damage" that is "way too enormous and damaging to working people and the economy more broadly for me to sit by idly and sing 'Kum-Ba-Ya' in the interests of progressive harmony." (Obama's Chicago Boys by Naomi Klein)

I truly sympathize with many Democrats: on the one hand, the Republicans have caused enormous damage to the constitution, and on the other hand the Democratic Party has been moving steadily to the right for many years. Every so often there's a big interest in joining the party to "change it from the inside", but it still remains"the party where progressive movements go to die" as the saying goes.

Voting for a truly progressive candidate like Cynthia McKinney (the former Democratic congresswoman who is likely to get the Green Party nomination - see video below) or Ralph Nader seems too risky after the destruction we've seen Bush cause in the last 8 years. I know that I would be mightily conflicted about who to vote for if I lived in a swing state. Thankfully I live in Utah, where I can vote my conscience, secure in the knowledge that our electoral votes will all be awarded to anyone with an "R" next to their name.