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Why I Hate Town Halls and Undecided Voters
Daily Beast, by Matt Latimer
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Posted By:StormCnter, 10/16/2012 5:06:43 AM
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| I don’t believe in the undecided voter. Let me be clear on this: I am not saying that I doubt the sincerity of someone who declares today, three weeks before an election that we’ve all been hearing about for years, that they have no idea for whom they are going to vote. Nor am I arguing that I personally lack faith in that dwindling few who call themselves “undecided” about the election. What I am saying is that I think “the undecided voter” is a chimera, a mirage, a Hollywood marriage, a coherent plotline
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Comments: At this point in a presidential election and with two candidates as different as these are, I agree with Latimer that no intelligent, aware person can possibly remain truly undecided.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/16/2012 5:14:21 AM (No. 8936345)
I think it will come out some of these townhall questioners will turn out to be dem operatives.Maybe even a couple of ex-ACORNers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Patchy groundfog, 10/16/2012 5:23:57 AM (No. 8936353)
A Daily Beast piece but spot on.
Why are we worshiping the lazy, the uninformed, the fickle and the me me me types?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
4Justice, 10/16/2012 5:31:23 AM (No. 8936356)
For the most part, I agree. How could anyone be undecided at this point unless they live in a vacuum. But then I startes thinking...I believe there are some long time Democrats who might be struggling with this election. Most Democrats cannot even fathom the idea of ever voting Republican. But I think there may be some who are disillusioned enough with Obama and maybe the entire Dem party who may be considering breaking their tradition. So, in that case, I do believe there are some undecided voters.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
STLstudent, 10/16/2012 7:05:50 AM (No. 8936439)
Indeed, it is only a great fool who is "undecided" at this point!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Periwinkel, 10/16/2012 7:35:15 AM (No. 8936499)
I just can't watch another Frank Luntz group of the uninformed! Nor another hefty woman from Ohio who just "can't make up her mind."
First, Frank drives me up a wall when he give this group so much credibility. They are uninformed and really only think about important things once every four years for about a week in October?——they don't deserve this contrived attention for blatant and proud idiocy!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Coy860, 10/16/2012 7:39:31 AM (No. 8936508)
I consider undecideds as intellectually lazy people. The choice is simple. Good vs. Evil. President Reagan knew there was more than one evil Empire.
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Oblio, 10/16/2012 7:49:05 AM (No. 8936521)
No one seems to realize that "undecided voters" and focus groups and on the sidewalk lip flappings are simply that - a way for the networks and cable news to fill up the hours until some real actually happens.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative, 10/16/2012 7:50:51 AM (No. 8936525)
The "undecideds" are looking for a social cue, not an intellectual exercise. They want to be part of the "in" crowd that voted historically, so they can either crow about it, or deny it later. It's why celebrity endorsements are meaningful. Yes, idiots vote. My favorite excuse is they're looking for more "specificity"...what?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
worstnightmare, 10/16/2012 7:55:48 AM (No. 8936536)
#8, you nailed it. I used to work with a man who said he was a "moderate". He was the most intellectually lazy person I knew. His life consisted of listening to rap music and smoking weed. A total waste.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 10/16/2012 8:20:35 AM (No. 8936580)
Duh...me 'n me papa wuz jest finishin off tha...duh...last peereshus drops of that thar white mule thet we dun 'n bought from Ol' Uncle Zeb...and it occurred to me, neither of us were covering our flanks, vis a vis, making sure that prudent aggressive investments were offset by the, ahem, trash in our social set. You know...the so- called "Hedge-Fund......pppppprrrt, Sorry....so sorry! I can never say that without cracking up. Or thinking of Chelsea Clinton....smrrrrtt! Sorry. There I go again. Anyway, I willl wager our old 10,000 sf cottage in the Hamptons against thet thar double wide me 'n the missus 're currently leasin' down yonder by thet thar crick. Thet thet thar Obammy gits tossd out the door fir good!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hammondb3, 10/16/2012 8:21:28 AM (No. 8936581)
I think there is such a thing as a legitimately undecided voter. But, the fact that there are any undecided voters at this point in time does not bode well for Obama.
Let's say we have a woman, 23, raising 2 children on her own. She may be a staunch supporter of abortion on demand, almost religiously so, but also not an idiot when it comes to economics and finance. She may be weighing the two issues while not yet being able to sacrifice one issue for the other.
For almost all of us here, both of these issues align on the same side of our analysis, but this woman has a conflict that is legitimate and she may feel unable to make her mind up.
If single issue voters are now facing the economic realities of failed policies then those who would normally blindly vote democrat are faced with a formidable challenge to do so again in this election.
All of the conservative single issue voters are already aligned with Romney. The only way that I can conceive of a legitimately undecided voter is the liberal single issue vote that is feeling strong economic pressures.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 10/16/2012 8:35:32 AM (No. 8936610)
What OP and #5 said. IMO, "undecided" = "attention-seekers". Anyone who hasn't made up their minds by this time should stay home and watch the Cartoon network and leave decisions to grownups..Seriously..
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 10/16/2012 9:51:06 AM (No. 8936729)
The people to blame here are not the lazy, ignorant, undecided voters, but rather the maroons at the DNC/RNC who arranged for this potted plant farce with Carnie Crowley presiding. Future debates should be just like the first. True debates are about the issues and the candidates. No more dumb plant props or stupid moderators out to prove something to their genetalia.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 10/16/2012 10:00:10 AM (No. 8936759)
With as much information as is available on the two candidates right now, the "undecided voters" consist primarily of those irritating people you always find yourself behind in line at a fast food counter. Those people who stare dumbly at the menu for minutes trying to decide what they want for lunch. It's not that they are undecided voters, it is that they are indecisive voters. They pretend that they are carefully deliberating their choice, but in reality they are just waiting for someone to tell them what to do.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
phillyred, 10/16/2012 10:44:33 AM (No. 8936872)
It's scary, but I do believe there truly are these undecideds. These are people with absolutely no core values. In other words, if the economy was pumping along with a socialist president, they are fine with that. If it's pumping along with a capitalist president, great. They don't care what happens in 5 or 6 years or the freedom being lost in the process. They don't think about what kind of country do I want to live in - a dependent or independent country. They wait to see which way the wind's blowing and go on instinct or a sound byte in the end. Sad but true.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree, 10/16/2012 11:24:19 AM (No. 8936967)
Are you a nitwit who still can't decide between chocolate and vanilla ice cream after you've been waiting in line for 15 minutes at the Dairy Queen?
Then you are the perfect audience member for our Townhall Debate between the two Presidential candidates.
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