I just heard that something like 30% of US voters consider themselves undecided.
How can this be? Who are these people?
I’m not trying to argue that any individual should vote for one of the two candidates instead of the other, but it kinda boggles my mind that anyone with the sentience of a gnat could not find some reason to prefer one over the other.
So how many millions and how much ugliness will be spread over the coming 5 months, and for what goal? To pander to the most ignorant of the population?
I’m undecided. I’ve never voted for a democrat before in my life, but am tempted to cast my lot in with Obama this time around because my usual party is running Bob Barr, who isn’t even close to actually being a Libertarian. I know I can’t vote for Barr, but I don’t know that the logical swing for me is to go over to the Democrats. I have some thinking to do.
It takes a while to decide who you’d prefer to have a beer with, or who’d be more fun at a barbecue.
I’m undecided, completely, and more than a little disgusted with politics, politicians, race, gender, and really anything else that has to do with elections. I don’t find any of the people up there represent me or any middle-class person. Instead, I feel like they’re all rich, scuzzy, pandering, POLITICIANS.
Don’t tell me Obama’s this or Clinton’s that. When the time comes I will research them myself and find out if there’s anybody I like. I have lots of thinking to do and plenty of time. I don’t have to decide until right before voting day. I’m not exactly sure what deciding in June is going to accomplish anyway.
It’s not because I’m ignorant. It’s because…we are in a war in Iraq. We have a president I despise. And that I could do nothing about any of this. I voted the other way. I vote in my local elections. I do all of the right things (except campaign. I won’t do that for any candidate.) I don’t expect everything I’d like to come into law, but I’d like us not to be in a war for no reason. And yet…there we are. Still.
I feel more and more powerless every year.
And that is why I am undecided.
A lot of people are either to busy or just not that interested in politics. What’s the big deal-- the election isn’t for another 5 months.
I’m undecided.
Undecided can also mean that some have not done the final weighing of issues.
I am anti-war.
I like conservative Supreme Court Justices in the Alito / Roberts mold.
I am free-trade.
I am pro-environment.
Now - Neither candidate matches my issues, so I will have to decide how to weigh each one.
Oh yeah, I live in California so at this time my vote doesn’t matter anyway - since the state will go Obama.
What about people like me, conservatives who dislike McCain, but would vote for Obama only after hell freezes over? For now I haven’t a clue what I’m going to do in November.
For the record, I did not vote for McCain in the primary, just as I vowed.
I’m undecided, too, although I admit that I’m a special case.
I’m undecided only in that I haven’t decided if I’ll even be voting. I’m not really in support of Obama, and I can’t get behind McCain, either.
I’m undecided. I guess that means I am less sentient than a gnat, eh?
I think this is a fairly common complaint among undecided voters. I have a friend who is very conservative when it comes to economic policy, and also opposes the war in Iraq. She and others like her have to choose between a candidate who agrees with their economic outlook but supports the war, or one who opposes the war but differs from them on economic issues. It’s an understandably difficult position that I don’t envy.
If asked in a poll I would probably say I was undecided. But my indecision is between voting Obama and not marking the presidential spot on the ballot at all.
My boyfriend keeps saying he’s “undecided,” but I’m almost positive he’s going to vote McCain, he just doesn’t want to take the fallout and have the inevitable discussions about why he’s voting for McCain as a minority. That said, I also know the only thing keeping him from openly declaring for McCain is his distaste for the war.
ETA: we’re both of us against Obama’s declared economic policy (which I feel he’s going to moderate) and both against the war. But I can definitely see why people are still undecided-for me the war outweighed the crazytalk on free trade. My bf is still very concerned about it.
Yeah, I’m undecided. I’m against Obama’s economic policy, but against McCain’s stand on the war (and lots of other things).
Basically, I need to decide whether having Obama in the White House is worth losing a ton of money in my bank account (from what I can gather, Obama’s policies will basically double the taxes taken out of my paycheck).
But every time I think I could suck it up and vote for McCain, he says something stupid.
So I’m undecided at this point.
I despise “lesser of two evils” choices, so I generally put off dealing with them as long as possible. Accordingly, although I’m fairly politically aware in general, I haven’t done the specific research necessary to make an informed decision at this point. Thus I am undecided, today.
Enjoy,
Steven
Okay, so various of you have reasons for being undecided.
So what is it going to take to make up your minds? Are you just putting off making a decision until you have to, or do you anticipate obtaining info that will sway you either for or against one candidate or the other?
Do you expect that the “information” that will be presented in the form of campaign speeches, ads, and “debates” over the next 5 months will be of much assistance to someone wishing to make an intelligent choice? Or - for that matter - do you think that a candidate’s campaign promises are a good guide to what he will or will not be able to get done once elected?
The basic issue is that you only need to decide by mid-afternoon on election day. I really think everyone should be undecided at least a little for a few months. Obama is charismatic but I don’t usually vote for Democrats and I don’t like his economic policy which is one of my key criteria. However, he is charismatic which the country probably needs now. McCain is old but he is experienced and I too like conservative Supreme Court justices. I am not pro-war or anti-war. I just think the strategy needs to be way more focused and either get out or stay while working on very defined goals. McCain may be better at that.
Heh, I’m a Fed but I got promoted very fast and now have a very reasonable salary. Believe me, I get taxed to the tune of 40%-something. My bf is upper management at an investment bank and even more worried about what’s going to happen under an Obama administration.