[theseus51]

You're supposed to vote for who you want to win. Not who the media says is supposed to win. Besides, voting for more of the same, is going to get you more of the same. If you think the way things are going now is just dandy, then yeah, vote for any of the other 15 candidates.

Besides, even if Ron Paul loses, if he gets a big percent, he could push the parties to his direction. Remember how Ross Perot made us focus more on the deficit? And Howard Dean pushed the Democratic party to being more anti-war? But if people just vote for the Bush-Clinton-Rudy-Obama machine, then everyone will just think "well, the people like our big government, welfare/warfare state, let's give them more of it". But if they see a huge percent against it, they might not be so eager to do so.