Out of the 23 choices that were not Obama or McCain according to
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/allcandidates/There were a total of 1,571,103 votes 3rd party... Ralph Nador received less than 1% of the popular vote and had the most 3rd party votes...
64,236,198 votes for Obama
56,623,741 votes for McCain
So if every person who voted 3rd party voted for McCain instead McCain would have had 58,194,844
McCain would have still lost to Obama by 6,041,354... Not to mention Obama's blowout in Electoral votes...
Obama had 349 electoral votes
McCain had 163
26 Undecided...
So how is it 3rd party voters fault?... McCain got torn a new one in both electoral votes and popular votes... Get over it.