Vote for? We don't vote "for" anything, we vote "against". Some people might vote against a black or female president, but in reality, those people are going to be so socially conservative that they'd never have voted for a Dem, anyway, and it's no real loss. For anyone else, it's just going to boil down to how much you can't stand one of the parties. I'm not voting Dem -- I'm voting anti-Republican. If the party you're not voting against actually fields a candidate you like, it's purely coincidence. It'll be like this as long as we have a two-party stranglehold on the system.