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the undecideds have decided (perhaps before the last debate?)
I've got a pretty intense distaste for those potential voters who have yet to make up their minds. Unless you're completely isolated from all forms of media and information dispersal in general, you should have made a decision by now. But that's a side-rant, here's the main rant:
Compare the CBS snap poll of 'undecided' voters from the first debate to the CBS poll from tonight's debate.
Who won: Obama McCain M.O.V. Draw
debate 1 39 25 +14 36
debate 2 39 27 +12 34
It's essentially the same. But it sure looked to me that Obama did much better and McCain did much worse in this debate, and this sentiment is backed-up by the CNN poll of all watchers (Obama debate 1: +13; Obama debate 2: +24).
This leads me to conclude that about 65% of these 'undecided' voters that CBS is polling are, in fact, decided, while the other 35% or so are the kind of fucking idiots who buy whatever the last ad they saw told them to and believe whatever the last pundit they heard tells them is true. These 35% will likely just pick whichever name comes first on their ballots.
Comments (2)
Funny you should mention it. I was saying the exact same thing about the so-called "undecided" voters out there. Pick a side already or have you even decided whether you will vote or not? Between two diametrically opposed set of policies, its not difficult to figure out which side you're on.
October 8, 2008 7:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly and good point. With the sides, as you say, so diametrically opposed, how do so many voters find an area to waffle in? Have they not formed their own opinions over the years? These undecideds piss me off almost as much as those who are so blindly behind McCain...
Although I wonder if perhaps I'm just deluding myself into thinking others should be paying some, or any, attention to politics just because I'm following it now. Apathy can be a pretty pervasive trait once you let it sink in.
October 9, 2008 11:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
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