Went past what is normally my polling place on election day, that is, Town Hall. There's a 'distance meter' out front, as if some magic number of meters (they still use feet here in the States) could help not determine or influence the erstwhile party devotee. You see, in New York anyway, unless enrolled in either the Democratic or Republican party, you can't help determine who might become the next President, whether they are black or female matters not. 
I thought it might be amusing to go in and try, but it would just embarrass and confuse the lovely senior citizens who grew up thinking we lived in a democracy. Some of them might even be able to reconcile the concept of a Republic, but I digress. To be fair, if my party had some more people in it, they might put together their own primary season, but I'm sure we'll be happy to get some people to the convention on the first weekend of summer. Whatever the result of that process, here's who I would have voted for today if I could as an 'independent'.
Mike Gravel and Ron Paul. Both oppose the war. They are both on the ballot (I know Paul is, not completely sure about Mike). For those reasons alone, although I did like the rock toss commercial Mike did, and nothing approximating full fledged unabated support. Of course the Paul people were very spirited and we welcome them aboard the Freedom Fighter Train that is the LP. Either man represents the sole voice of dissent in a tsunami of petty rufflings, vacuous policy debate and cult of personality coverage (witness the demise of Rudy, his cult was the MSM). This reign of pundit (t)error is coming to a close as the hardy few that see the main parties as containing anything redeeming continues in the booth today.
This vicious, horrible game comes at the expense of the average sensibilities. When a numbed or bemused voter trails into a caucus or primary, they are doing so as a guilty chore. That key twenty minutes or more absolves them from some greater civic responsibility or angst. With any luck the coronation process will emerge and the non-pundits and average slobs of the world will just let the world slide by with only the pain of their earnings and what is taken away for the behemoth that is now a 3 trillion dollar US budget.
As the polls close and the chairs are folded . . . As Ethel and Sidney shuffle back to their comfy government subsidized homes . . . Remember, you don't decide. They don't care and the process is not too fair. Some of us only come to the plate glass window and look in. Shame on those inside who don't try or care. It's the war stupid.
I too am an independent. The fact that I can vote for the brand of toothpaste or gas I prefer 24/7 with my economic ID card (MasterCard, VISA or AMEX) makes it plainly clear to me which voting is more important to the folks who created, and who continue to support, this ruse of a democracy.
I can't recall now who it was, but I once heard someone say:
"If you could change anything by voting, it wouldn't be legal."