ive always found that voting third party sends a message to the main parties that their candidates arent quite up to snuff. but i wouldn't vote and expect your guy to win, your just sending a message. and if you cant find anything at fault with the current administration, but you want to voice with your vote that you think an independant is what you need that works fine. but if you do not like the current administration and want someone else, then you are better off just voting for the other party, even if you dont like them.
neither party produces good candidates. you always get the same hippies vs bible thumpers election. none of the candidates have a clue how to fix the current issues. they just keep reciting the mantras their party has hammered into them. and even if they did figure out what to do, it would probibly result in decreased popularity and their chances for re-election would be slightly lessened. if they do make any hard decisions ,anything they do in their first term doesnt go into effect till their second (obamacare). the way i see it if a president's first term doesnt shine, i dont want them for a second.
id love to see an independent come in, get elected, and show everyone else how its done. if there was another candidate that i thought had a snowballs chance in hell for winning id throw my vote in that direction, but as it stands, there is no one that i think has a better shot at winning, especially because there is an incumbent in this election. so im gonna vote republican, because thats my best bet for dethroning obama.
how i would solve things is id hack the military budget in half. we would still have the most expensive military on the planet. of that half would go to domestic use, and the other half to reducing our debts without having to hike taxes (i would still tweak the tax code to not have so many loopholes). we shouldn't be stomping on our own people to help everyone else. we can go back to being the world police once were out of debt. thats what needs to be done. also i kinda think were falling behind in space tech, and need to give nasa moar money, but thats a tiny bit of the budget and really isnt worth mentioning.