Why are some voters still undecided?
October 8th, 2008 at 05:53pm Pat Cunningham
Do you know anyone who’s still undecided on how they’ll vote in the presidential election? Well, I don’t.
Public attention to the presidential race has been more intense this year than in any previous campaign season I can recall.
The cable news networks realized many months ago that politics draws a lot of viewers as America prepares to move beyond the Bush era, and they have programmed and marketed themselves accordingly.
By the same token, the media in general have devoted more time and space to the presidential race.
As a result, the vast majority of voters have made their choices by now, and polls show a hardening of positions in that regard.
So who are these nine or 10 percent of likely voters who have yet to make up their minds? How many of them are just habitually indecisive? How many are utterly clueless about politics? How many, as was suggested on “The Daily Show” the other night, racist Democrats struggling with the thought of voting for a black person? How many are so gullible that they always agree with the last political opinion they’ve read or heard?
During their coverage of last night’s debate, several networks focused on groups of undecided voters for signs that some of them were swayed by the event. The comments I heard from a few of these folks after the debate were so obtuse that I couldn’t help but hope that they’ll stay at home on election day for lack of the ability to make a decision one way or the other.
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