Reply #101: SOME Democrats who are disappointed in Obama will vote for him anyway.

[No Elephants]

Some will write in a candidate at the top of the ticket, some will vote third party at the top of the ticket, and some will stay home.

Option 3 will hurt the Party as a whole, and the Left in particular, because the right wing of both Parties can spin failure to vote however they wish; and the likelihood of their spinning it in a way that will lead the Party back to the left is very small. Plus, it hurts solid Democrats down ticket.

And staying home is, IMO, anti-democracy, as well as self defeating for the Left.