What's the real measure of the public's thinking?

Funny to run into this, as I had just been thinking of, well, some kind of a poll, I suppose. What's the real measure of the public's thinking?

Say we had a three-way race, O'Bama the Democrat vs. Palin as an Independent Party candidate vs the Republican nominee. Put in different RINOs, and see what poll results you get when you run it past the Tea Party folks (not their "leaders" whoever they may be), solid conservatives, military families, and just plain long-suffering heartland Americans. Romney? Really? Gingrich? OMG! One of the other Democrat-preferred McCainish sure-to-lose boys?

Some states have essentially legislated two-party-ism, unless you've got Perot's power to throw the election. Oklahoma's heavy rules for getting on the ticket booted the Libertarians (party of the L on forehead) long ago.

Then there's the way so many folks still get their views (not just their news) from the mass media brainwashing machine and would not even know the truth about a 3rd party candidate (witness the recent NY race split). Back in the '70s when I first heard of the party of principle, I used to hope the Libertarians had a chance -- I even "wasted" some votes on the LP candidates when I was permitted to do so (and when the election was a foregone conclusion, like Reagan), but the LP still is doggedly running 4th in a 3-way race, more determined to lose than the RINO establishment.

You don't have to be tin-hat cynical to acknowledge the way those two married-to-each-other mobs control the elections in major areas. (I forget -- was it Stalin or Lenin who said, it's not the people who vote who decide the elections, it's the people who count the votes?).

Include the sheer inertia of the whole two-party system. Most of my relatives plan to pull the straight-party lever; aside from a couple of collij-ejjimicated Obamabots, the majority are life-long straight-ticket Republicans.

These factors added up surely mean that a strong conservative third party would in all probability split the right and independent vote and give us four more years of this worst administration ever. In this critical emergency election, it's just horse sense, realism, to accept "any Republican over Obama!" I'm all about getting O'Bama out, too, you betcha! Like an old National Lampoon skit once said of Nixon, anybody but O'Bama -- an Edsel -- a toaster -- anything!

BUT.. BUT... BUT.... But when I reflect upon this awful seeming truth, I CRINGE! Did you hold your nose in voting for McCain? Did you hold your nose voting for the neocon Bush (twice)? And before that, and before that, and before that? Ach-eee-double hockey-sticks, I even have problems with Reagan. How long are we going to be forced to choose the lesser of two weevils? to choose increasingly INO R's, just to stop the latest D'crazy? HOW LONG, O LORD?

I'm FED UP with this. You?

HillBuzz really helps educate about eeyorism or concern trolling. Does this conclusion, "any Republican," differ in spirit?