My voice mail is brimming. My email is overloaded. I can’t keep up with all the demands for my time! Every since I told that woman who came to my door that I am an Undecided Voter, I have been inundated! The Swiftboat guy called, the steelworker, even W himself has left an urgent message for me. Cops, teachers, veterans, both Democrats and Republicans are wooing me like I’ve never been wooed before! Every day when I get home I have to spend my free time deleting voice mail, deleting email…it’s exhausting! Some of these guys are persistent…I think it was Dick Cheney who called twice a day for a while. I feel like I’m being stalked.
But will they call after the election? No, I don’t think so.
kittenblue, this is a sincere question. How can you be undecided? On any issue you care to name, the difference between the two major candidates is stark. There is almost no overlap. Whatever your issue, one of these guys is on your side, and the other isn’t. What is it that keeps you from making up your mind?
Punkyova - In my case, neither candidate is “on my side”. I’m far, far more conservative than one, far less conservative than the other. There is no moderate candidate in this election.
What St Germain said. There is not one candidate that I can completely trust, or completely like, or completely support. While I agree wholeheartedly with one candidate on one issue, his stance on another leaves me cold. Neither one has impressed me, and both have impressed me. My politics do not follow party lines, or classic liberal/conservative lines. I am a “small i” independent. I’m trying to decide who is the lesser of two evils. Who is telling the truth, and who is lying about telling the truth. Whenever the media tries desperately to spin me in one direction, I’m the type who starts looking in the other direction. I’m a trusting soul who trusts no one. I’m religious, and pro-military, but not conservative. I have an elderly mother who is worried about prescriptions, and a child who worries about terrorists. I will not be put in a Democrat/Republican box, or colored with someone else’s red or blue paint. I don’t buy the hype on either side. I don’t listen to campaign promises. I expect to be lied to. And I let personal considerations cloud my judgement.
How can I not be undecided?
Now my mom, on the other hand, has known for years who she is not voting for, and has filled out her absentee ballot already, and yet she still watches every political commentary show, every debate, reads every editorial. Why? Her mind is made up, it’s a done deal…I say move on to something less irritating. Needless to say we do not discuss politics.
Perhaps kittenblue hasn’t yet had time to dig up the facts behind all the lies both sides are telling every day.
It’s a shame that my vote is going to the candidate who’s the lesser threat. (Still, it seems clear to me that one man is a much greater threat to my liberty than the other.)
Thanks for answering. I really hadn’t thought of it that way. I am so used to hearing people complain (in other years) that they are undecided because “there’s no real difference between them” that I just didn’t get it. It kind of took a paradigm shift to see what you were talking about.
StGermain, that’s also a helpful way of putting it. Thanks.
You know, the same damn thing happened to me this year. I’ve never recieved mail from political parties before-- even though I’ve voted in every single election since I was eighteen. I was the Invisible Woman when it came to politicians. Odd, considering they’re not usually sparing with fliers and whatnot.
It happened as soon as I moved into my new house. Suddenly, my mailbox was crammed full of Vote for Bush fliers, fliers from anti-choice groups, and fliers from 527s warning me in ominous tones that Kerry intends to raise my taxes. What the hell was going on? Why this sudden interest in advertising to me? And, more importantly, how did they find me?
Then it hit me: I look like a Republican now! My home’s value, our income, our neighborhood (historic, peopled mainly by older folks) our race, our occupations . . . our demographics sent up a flag at the GOP headquarters!
These fliers have provided more entertainment than intended. I love studying their layouts, choice of color and lighting, font types and the like. Marketing at its finest. My favorite showed a lovely photo Bush with a beatific smile and-- I swear I’m not making this up-- lighting which made a halo effect. The man fairly glowed with wholesome goodness, whereas the photo of Kerry was blurry, shadowed, and had him standing in front of what suspiciously looked like a Chinese flag. Godless commie had a scowl on his face, he did, every wrinkle harshly outlined by shadows.
The Right-To-Life one showed Bush’s picture in full color with that same saintly air. His bullet points were little pink hearts. Kerry was in black and white with a baby-eating grimace, and his bullets were harsh black dots. His side of the “fact sheet” was colorless, whereas the Bush side was bright and eye-catching.
I wish I could examine Kerry fliers for the same marketing ploys, but I haven’t gotten any. The Democrats seem to have written me off as a lost cause. It really is a shame.
Kittenblue, one candidate claims that God speaks directly to him. He won’t listen to anyone who disagrees with him. He terrifies me.
The other candidate admits to being human.
If you want any other opinions, I am full of them, just knock on my door. You know where it is.
By the way, the person who is often mistaken for me agrees with me on this. A certain person who has the same name as you, but spells it differently, doesn’t. As far as she’s concerned, Kerry will raise taxes, and that is the only thing she can comprehend. I am sure that the two people who recently moved to Minnesota will be voting Democrat.
Since Maryland isn’t an undecided state, I’m not hearing anything from anyone, which suits me fine. If anyone called on the phone, I’d hang up. If they came to the door, I’m not sure what I’d do.
