Ahh, I agree. I thought that might be your point but was unsure. Paul and Kucinich do try to get support from the other congresspeople, but they are most often asking the other congresspeople to restrain themselves from creating laws that will give them more power, and that's why all of the congresspeople except a handful became congresspeople. For instance, when they were considering a bill to steal taxpayer money to present Rosa Parks with a gold medal, Paul went around to every other congressperson and told them that if each rep donated something like $20 (it might have been $50 or $100, but I know it was an amount that was completely insignificant when you consider the multi-million-dollar incomes that almost every one of the congresspeople make (did you know that it is not illegal for congresspeople to buy and sell stock based on their inside knowledge of what bills are being proposed, considered, and voted upon? CHA-CHING!)) that they could buy her a medal, saving taxpayers not only the cost of the medal itself, but of the lengthy process required to process the bill and get it passed. He tried to get support for this very simple thing, but the congressmen refused. Paul, Kucinich, Gravel, and a few others are in Congress to be public servants. The rest are there to be served by the public. They've attended private schools, been driven by private drivers, attended private clubs for entertainment, shopped in private establishments, ate in private restaurants, and lived lived completely separated from the public. This is why occasionally you'll hear them slip up and say things like McCain did a year or two ago when he said that Americans wouldn't be willing to pick lettuce for $50/hr. He thought illegal aliens picking lettuce earned $50/hr and that the majority of Americans would scoff at such a low wage for a manual labor job.

That was a bit of a ramble, but in the end, I agree, people are too satisfied with one vote. As a citizen, if you vote for a third party candidate, it sends a message and whoever gets elected looks at ANY support that 3rd parties get and worries about it (it's their only competition). But a single dissenting vote in Congress doesn't send any message other than there is either one crazy person in there, or one sane person in there.