Undecided = uninform(-ed/-able)
There's a lot of post-election analysis in the liberal blogosphere, but this one amazed me. Apparently there is a large class of undecided voters who seem to be unaware not just of issues but of the existence thereof. Why the hell do these people bother to vote at all? And by the way, I do have a favourite prime number.
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This is interesting, but can one really make the claim that Bush had an advantage with undecided voters because of it? (And thereby claim that it was why he won.)
Someone mentioned to me that what was interesting about this election was that Bush won purely on the Republican base. That no one believed Rove that a get-out-the-vote effort could lead to a win for Bush, but that he did just that. The claim is that Bush didn't win a majority of the democrats (obviously) and that he didn't win a majority of the *undecideds* either (!!). That he won only the Republican vote and by getting that group out in numbers.
Are there any numbers to support or discredit this?
To follow on to Eric's comment, it is very rare that the issues politicians talk about during the election even come up during the next 4 years. No one anticipated that the isolationist Bush during the 2000 campaign would become an interventionist in 2003 and 2004. The "Social Security lockbox" that both candidates fell all over themselves to talk about in 2000 wasn't mentioned in the next 4 years.
Are we shocked that voters don't care about a proposal that Sen. Kerry developed in the campain? He didn't care enough as a Senator to actually introduce this legislation, we have no idea what the bill would look like after Congressional committees got done with it, we have no idea whether a President Kerry would be able to get enough Republicans on board to get a vote on the bill, let alone get it passed, we have no idea what parts of the legislation Kerry would compromise on. In reality, it always comes down to your feelings on the candidate himself, whether you are an "issues voter" or not.
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