Is it just me, or is this New York Times article on undecided voters just a more genteel version of this Daily Show segment on undecided voters?
(Personally, all the people in the Times sound like they want to vote for McCain, but know there's no good reason to do so. They'll talk themselves into it by Tuesday. But maybe reading too many blogs has made me pessimistic.)
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The Pew Research Center informs us that
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today's number is 46%. That is the percentage of
independent voters who are undecided about their choice for President
Undecidable financial contracts, crowdsourcing nepotism and explaining the Nobel Prize.
We got it all...
I've often suspected (based on a highly unsystematic series of conversations with classic New Hampshire independents) that most undecided voters are really just low-information voters, who have actually made a decision but don't quite know how to explain their decision.
Remember the Democratic New Hampshire primary? According to news organizations and many pollsters, the NH primary was supposed to be the loss that put Hillary Clinton out of contention and sealed an early nomination for Obama. Yet Clinton staged a surprise victory.
Dear still-undecideds:
If you can't make up your mind, please just don't vote. Or go 3rd-party. It's really okay.