As for Clinton and voting for the lesser of two evils, don't we need to at some point have enough courage to start voting for a third party candidate? How is it possible that we can mobilize young people online to do any number of noble things but a 3rd party candidate isn't viable? I don't buy it. That said, I have no idea who this 3rd party candidate would be. Do you? Any ideas on a viable 3rd party candidate people??Obama is often portrayed as a liberal, and is not infrequently accused of being a “socialist.” These notions say a lot more about how far to the right American political ideology has drifted in the last 35 years than anything else.
That not withstanding, I think it also says a lot about how easily convinced the electorate is by the cable news outlets and other various marketers of fear/ideology. If enough outlets started claiming Obama was a theocrat or totalitarian, you'd eventually hear Joe the plumber down at the bar repeating the blather. Politics is a game of marketing towards victory and not steering towards ideals and one party/network is WAY better at it than the other.