Who is the typical undecided voter?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:46am Pat Cunningham
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If you scroll down toward the end of THIS REPORT on a Pew Research Center poll released today, you’ll find some fascinating figures concerning the eight percent of the electorate that has yet to decide how they’ll vote.
Who are these strange people who still haven’t made up their minds?
Well, the typical undecided voter is a white woman over 30 years of age who is less educated and less affluent than the average voter. She’s more likely to live in the South than any other region and attends church more regularly than most voters.
Not surprisingly, she’s also more likely to have no opinions on most of the major political issues of the day. Nor has she been paying much attention to the presidential race.
If you know this woman, perhaps you could encourage her to skip this election and leave it to those of us who actually care about such things.
POSTSCRIPT: Notice, too, that the Pew poll also shows Barack Obama with a wide lead over John McCain.
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1. Milton Waddams | October 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
As usual The Daily Show nails it…check out this video from a couple weeks ago…
2. hokumboy | October 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
A good friend of ours was visiting from out of town and was one of the undecided. She’s a lifelong Conservative Republican white woman, 60 years old with a master’s degree. She’s retired but her income puts ours to shame. She lives in the South and is a devout, pro-life, “born-again” Christian. She’s been following this race since it began.
She sat in our living room and watched the last McCain/Obama debate with us. We listened to the debate without comment since, with some old friends you’d rather not open neither the religion nor politics cans of worms. When the debate ended she simply stated ‘I’m voting for Obama’.
Whether she’ll stick with that vote on election day, I don’t know. But he influenced her enough to change her lifelong political stance. I was impressed.
3. Billybeermonicagar | October 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
A relative of mine (inlaw), life long dem, has never voted for a Republican, worked for the state for 38 years along with her husband, is pro choice and thinks the health care system needs an overhaul, will be voting for McCain this year because she says she has seen enough of the Chicago dems ruin this state. She does not trust a Chicago dem to run the country.
4. bannernews | October 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Hey how about those Alaskan Republicans. The newest governor ran the old crook out of office then she gets unethical behavior note in her file.
Now Teddy Stevens gets “decked”.
Alaska the real America
5. echo4charlie | October 28th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
How do they figure this? Sounds far fetched to me……….
6. PeterGunn | October 29th, 2008 at 6:20 am
The “Undecided Voter” is the biggest media fraud since three card monty
Wasnt Joe the Plumber originaly hoisted up as one of these undecided voters ?
And we all know all that turned out
Dont we
7. Milton Waddams | October 29th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Joe was only undecided because he hadn\’t decided whether to vote, not who he\’d vote for. He wasn\’t registered to vote at the time of his question, don\’t know if he has since registered. Maybe he should talk to ACORN. He should be sure to fill the card out properly, otherwise ACORN will have to do its legal obligation and flag it as suspicious, but turn it in anyway opening them up to more witchhunting by the GOP. If ACORN wanted to be a really effective partisan election fraud participant, they should figure out a way to illegally remove eligible voters from the rolls like the GOP does, it worked well for the GOP in 2000 and 2004. Early indications are that they have stepped up their game in 2008, I wonder if they can disenfranchise enough people to steal another election. It isn\’t about the voting, it\’s about the counting.
8. Billybeermonicagar | October 29th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Milt, when did Florida turn into Iraq? Is it really that hard to vote? Quit making excuses for being lazy!
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