I’ll tell you exactly why I can’t stand the undecided voters. this woman, who asked the question about women in the workforce, yet she is still undecided.
That’s right for an issue oh so important to her she still cannot decide between the guy who’s first act as President was to sign the Lily Ledbetter Act and the guy who apparently doesn’t know enough qualified women that he needs his team to get im a binder of women candidates, plus he knows they need to be home in time to cook dinner. She cannot decide between those two guys on an issue she seemingly really cares about.
Is she one person, yes. But seriously I am convinced that the undecideds either don’t care or like this woman lack the necessary cognitive skills to pull a level.
As bad as the debates were for information content, they were orders of magnitude better than the ads, what few I’ve managed to see. I don’t think you could watch ads and consider yourself better informed than someone who didn’t see them, all else being equal.
Honestly, if someone tells me they’re flipping back and forth between Obama and Romney, I assume they have no political philosophy to speak of. Being unsure of whether you want to vote for Obama or Romney is like being unsure whether you want to eat or learn to macrame.
And the undecideds are so much worse than those who pull D or R every single time they vote, right? You know those folks who are Democrats, or Republican, and will never, ever vote for the other party. Even if their chosen party were running the little baby Hitler for President.
Yeah, it is much worse to think about each sides policies, seeing some good on each side, and being torn on which is better. Only an idiot would do that because we all know the <insert political party here, and since this is the 'Dope it’d be the Democrats> are the only party to vote for, ever.
[shrug] No one is obliged to have one, and most people get along well enough without one. That does not necessarily imply political apathy, and is not a disqualification from voting.
I would assume they have at least one or two issues that they feel strongly about on a consistent basis. I don’t have much patience for weather vanes that rely on the last yard sign they saw prior to getting their ballot.
There is no way that these people are solemnly and analytically weighing their options between the candidates before making a decision informed by deep personal principles. They would like everyone to think that, because who wouldn’t want to be viewed as a serious and principled person? But they’re not, they’re either being lazy or they’re trying to disguise the fact that the decision on whom they’ll vote for is based on silly criteria. Same thing with the elite media. They’ve got a narrative to sell of partisan gridlock that can only be overcome by “centrism” (which is essentially old fashioned fiscal conservatism, but with gay rights), so they set these goofy yokels up as conscientious citizens turned off by the “extreme” politics of the two parties, even though one candidate is in fact quite centrist.
I think that’s what aggravates me the most. It’s the media making shit up out of thin air. Where the hell did CNN find these assholes? And does anyone really believe that most of them weren’t fibbing just to get on TV?
In this particular case, I can’t fault anyone for being undecided. Obama hasn’t delivered on what he promised (though personally I’m quite happy with what he has delivered), but Mitt Romney for President is a totally different guy from Mitt Romney for Republican Nominee. How are they supposed to know whether to vote for him when he just popped into existence two weeks ago?
CNN has been doing a special section on the undecided voters, focusing on 6 representative types and going into detail about their lives and why they are undecided. I found it pretty darn interesting. The types are the millennial, the Catholic, the long-term unemployed, the Latino, the single woman, and the evangelical.
Honestly, after Candy fact checked Romney the other night, I wonder how anyone could not have decided right there and then? Romney’s smug attitude leading to the gotcha he planned backfired live on national TV leaving him with a pretty big foot in his mouth.
I’m thinking that may have been a pivotal point in many voter’s decision. If you’re still undecided, you’re not following the election. There’s more than enough material to allow for a decision.