> I listened to all the arguments about how a vote for a third party was a vote for Kerry, since I'd be taking away a potential Bush vote in the swing state of Colorado. In the end, I just wasn't swayed by it.

Well, good, because it doesn't make sense. Assuming either Kerry or Bush would win the state (which was the case), a vote for a third party isn't any different, to them, from you not voting at all.