I’m a registered independant voter so I don’t get to vote in the primaries. I only get to pick between the candidates pre-chosen by the Democratic and Republican parties. That doesn’t bother me much since I usually don’t care for either one and have to simply pick the lesser of two evils.
So for the 2008 election, it looks like I’ll get to pick between a right-wing religious conservative candidate or a left-wing tax-and-spend liberal candidate. There really don’t seem to be many (if any) candidates who are moderate.