we need a 3rd party, or better yet change voting to preferential voting, so you can vote for who you want and not against who you don't.
that way you can say I like this guy, but in case he doesn't win, I'll settle for this one
that way you can say I like this guy, but in case he doesn't win, I'll settle for this one
If you have any references arguing for Condorcet over Borda, I would be very interested to read them.
Edit: For people unfamiliar with the jargon, Borda is ranked-list voting, with the winner being the candidate with the highest average rank. Condorcet is pairwise-comparison voting with the winner being the candidate that wins the highest fraction of pairwise comparisons.
In this jargon, "first past the post" systems select the person with the highest fraction of being ranked first; this is argued in the literature to be intimately tied to the two-party dominance in the US.