[Just another Joe]

I don’t think the pinch-your-nose-and-vote strategy is a very good one.

I don't either.
That's the strategy of every Presidential election since President Reagan stepped down and look where its gotten us.

Keep holding your nose folks. Sooner, or later, you will be voting on the "looks" of a candidate and nothing else because everything else will be the same.

[Ancesthntr]

That's the strategy of every Presidential election since President Reagan stepped down and look where its gotten us.

As bad as Bush 41 was, would Dukakis have been better? WAS Clinton better?

Bush 43 vs. either Gore or Kerry is a similarly easy choice for me.

I didn't like ANY of those choices - but the alternatives were worse, FAR worse.