If you're talking about Democrats and Republicans, I think you'll find they're both decidedly right wing compared to political parties elsewhere in the world.  Your choices are actually far more limited than they might appear.



Looking at that, there's hardly anything between Obama and Romney.  Your other candidates are a little more broadly spread across the spectrum in their views, though.  But of course, being the US, independent and third party candidates may as well not exist for all practical purposes.  The UK isn't much better in that respect, though.

As for it being "nice" to see UKIP do well, I'll have to disagree.  Scapegoating minorities and blaming them for all your economic problems is the kind of backwards thinking that we, as a species, should have been able to move past by now.  That sort of BS should have ended with WW2.  UKIP are disgusting, vile creatures.