I'm seriously considering voting for Obama...

Well, I think they care a great deal. The change they want is bi-partisan cooperation to get the work of the country done. Of course, neither candidate can afford to abandon the left and right wings of their parties in order to get elected, but I think both of these guys are going to take sharp turns to the middle once he is in office.

You only have to look at Reagan and Bill Clinton for sucessful examples. Reagan ran as an extreme right-winger, but he presided as a moderate, working closely with Tip O'Neil and democratic leaders in Congress. Clinton ran as a liberal populist, but presided as a moderate, working closely with a Republican Congress to supercharge the economy and reform welfare.

Bush 43 and the Neocons felt like a tiny majority was all they needed to simply ignore the other party and reshape America in their ideological image. It was foolish for a fellow that won with only 50% of the vote and it proved disasterous.

This is why the Clinton's are not getting wholeheartedly on the Obama bandwagon. If Obama stays too far left or stumbles, The Lady in the Pantsuit wants to be able to preserve her moderate credentials to take him on in 2012.

 

I can understand your sentiment, but the problem is, any vote against someone must be made by voting for someone else. In this case, unless you're voting for Ron Paul, a vote against the Bush Administration (which isn't on the ballot, btw) is a vote for Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Kennedy, Dodd, et al. You know, the guys that collectively have a 9%.....9%!!! approval rating. The more I watch, the more I'm considering looking to a 3rd party candidate. No way would I vote for Obama, and I'm not sure I can hold my nose and vote for McCain.

 

Obama's support from the democratic left wing is exactly the same as McCains support from the republican right wing (of equally low approval ratings). They are doing it for campaign expedience. Neither candidate is likely to be a pawn for those guys because they won't have to and they realize that The American People are looking for a moderate.