If you've got two bad choices, look for more criteria.
How do you feel about civil rights? Whose economic approach is more likely to fix things? Is the legality of abortion and contraception important to you?
Choose the lesser evil today. Then work for a greater good tomorrow.
That sounds like a nice sound bite, but in reality, choosing the lesser evil today further cements the need to be choosing the lesser evil tomorrow.
I'm not from the US (and don't have a favored candidate), but I hear this rhetoric quite a lot. In each election, regardless of allegiance, we hear that this particular election is too important to throw away a vote by voting independent. After all, we don't want another Gore/Nader!
I've always wondered; in exactly which of the previous 56 elections would it have been OK?
I suspect the real answer for the majority of lesser evil types (and I'm not saying you are in this boat) is along the lines of: back when the Whigs were in power.
How do you feel about civil rights? Whose economic approach is more likely to fix things? Is the legality of abortion and contraception important to you?
Choose the lesser evil today. Then work for a greater good tomorrow.