Unlike the right, where Republican voters tend to gather around the GOP flag even if they have to hold their noses while doing so, the left voter is still convinced that a third party candidate can somehow come on board and make things just and right in this bigbadworld.
Big business, big labour and the big, bad United States: when Mr Roh, a relative unknown, took office a year ago, the world wondered whether the former activist would prove a radical leftist on these three issues.