I like people to know where they stand. Liberal or conservative. By the time we reach adulthood we should have the common sense to know where we stand on the issues. I am not saying we can not have both liberal and conservative views but good god know where you stand. This waiting to the last second just tells me you don't know squat about politics.
Only 10% of the public is liberal and about the same percentage of the public is conservative, with about 5% total spread between the left of liberal and the right of conservative and schizoid concoctions of the two.
That leaves about 75% of Americans in the "silent majority" category bunched up at the center of the political spectrum.
Of the six parties fielding candidates for President this election, all parties are either at liberal or the left of liberal or conservative or to the right of conservative in their philosophical orientation (Libertarian being schizoidly liberal and conservative (on social and economic-fiscal issues respectively) at the same time).
Thus the great majority of Americans have
no party to represent them.
So they have to do what they always do: choose the lesser of two evils .. and often they have to hold their nose to vote for the lesser evil.
The minor four parties, being either to the left of liberal or right of conservative or schizoidly both, they're obviously too extreme, and thus they get weeded out more easily.
That means most centrists have to choose between the liberal Dems and conservative Repubs.
The process of making that choice is a lot more involved than a liberal (or a conservative) might think. It's difficult to tell for many centrists whether the liberal or the conservative is the lesser of the evils.
This year, for this centrist, it's pretty clear that Romney is the lesser of the two evils, and considerably so. That's not to say that Romney's good at all. That's just to say that Obama is much worse.
But if we had a centrist political party, then a lot less people would be undecided, as liberals would vote for liberals, disgruntled liberals would vote for left-of-liberal tickets, conservatives would vote for conservaties, disgruntled conservatives would vote for right of-conservative tickets, and centrists would vote for centrists.
