WASHINGTON – No question about it – somebody is going to win the U.S. presidential election Nov. 4.

There's also little dispute it will be either Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama.

However, as the campaign goes on, more voters are running away from the two front-running candidates to other, much lesser-known, third-party candidates.

• An Associated TV/Zogby International poll released last week showed McCain leading Obama 42 percent to 41 percent – leaving 17 percent either undecided or leaning to third-party candidates.
  
  
• A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll had Obama with 47 percent to McCain's 43, leaving 10 percent to mostly third-party candidates when only Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr and Peace and Freedom Party nominee Ralph Nader are included in the choices. As other third-party candidates are added to the mix, the disaffection from the presumptive Democratic and Republican party nominees grows.

Nader is polling between 3 percent and 8 percent in various surveys. Barr reaches as high as 5 points. Most polls have not given prospective voters the opportunity of choosing any of the third-party options and those that have included only Nader, Barr and Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party.

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Excluded from all major polls to date are Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin or America's Independent Party Candidate Alan Keyes. All of those options and others will be included in polling to be conducted this weekend by WorldNetDaily and Zogby.

"It just stands to reason that people are more likely to announce their support of candidates who are mentioned by pollsters," explained WND Editor Joseph Farah, author of the new book, "None of the Above," in which he makes the case for supporting third-party candidates or writing in another choice because, he asserts, the two frontrunners are both unworthy of the highest office in the land. "I don't want to say there has been a conspiracy among the pollsters and major media to exclude any mention of the alternatives, but, until now, it is a fact, nonetheless."

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Among the polls that have included Barr, Nader and McKinney, it is also clear that more votes are being sucked away from Obama than McCain. But Farah's goal in promoting "None of the Above" is not to elect McCain.

"What I really want traditional Republicans, the kind of people who enthusiastically supported Ronald Reagan, to understand is that McCain's election will be worse for them and worse for the nation in the long run than a victory by Obama," explains Farah. The reasons are several-fold, he says:

• If McCain is elected, he will remake the Republican Party in his own image – one more suitable to Democrats and less suitable to those who believe in the party's actual platform since 1980.
  
  

• If McCain is elected, he will govern much like Obama any way, but, with divided government, it will be McCain who takes the blame – leading, ironically, to the election of either Obama or Hillary Clinton in 2012.
  
  
• If Obama is elected, the country will hurt as a result of policies he executes at the behest of the Democrats in Congress, but it will be Obama and the Democrats who get the blame – leading possibly to another Reagan Revolution as occurred following Jimmy Carter's four-year term ending in 1980.

"Obama trauma is better than McCain pain," is what I explain to people in "None of the Above." But the biggest reason for voting for neither of them is that it is simply wrong to do so – it's immoral to vote for any candidate who is not going to uphold the fundamental tenets of our Constitution."

To interview Joseph Farah, contact M. Sliwa Public Relations by e-mail, or call 973-272-2861 or 212-202-4453.