[WS:] Presidential election is the absolutely last time to provoke, let alone challenge voters with anything that is not trite or conventional. Read my signature line - the candidates must bark with the pack or be lost. What seprates a good candidate from a bad one (from a progressive standpoint) is the appeal to the more enlightened and compassionate feelings (Obama) or fear mongering and hate instincts (Mc Cain) of the populace.
If you want change, work to elect the candidate whose ear you will be more likely to have, wait after the election and then start lobbying as if your life depended on it. Wojtek
--------------------------------------------------------------- "When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost. [...] All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men." - HL Mencken ----------------------------------------------------------------