Think about it. This late in the game, anyone who has not made up his or her mind about for whom they will vote for president is either horribly confused or just not paying attention. For someone to change his or her mind now would, in all likelihood, require a catastrophic scandal. But, as we see day by day, the numbers change. Why?
Let's focus on changes in preference again today. This time, I think I've got it down a little more logically. I've done a little thinking and realized that there are only three things that people can do that matter. You can vote for Obama or McCain, or withhold your vote.
I'm a big fan of game theory. Politics, and life in general, are games where people try to get what they want. For the third choice in the election it doesn't really matter whether you are just not voting or vote for a third party candidate. Either way, neither of the two guys who could possibly take the oath of office in January will get your vote.
Since it's "winner take all" in each of the states and the District of Columbia, such puerile, peevish breath-holding makes no difference whatsoever. Your state still has the same number of electoral votes and one guy is going to get them all. Your whiny stand of moral indignation and futile protest is to no avail. No one will notice or care.
Suck it up, grit your teeth, steel your resolve, hold your nose and pick one of the two who are contending. It's the grown-up thing to do.
If you have already made up your mind, good for you. Today's poll might shed some more light on that. However, my best hopes for finding out something new lie in the comments people make. What process did you go through to get to where you are now? Please try to resist the compulsion to correct my thinking or chastise me for my twisted views. No one cares what I think and even less about what you think about what I think.
Take the poll, and if you have the time, make a comment about yourself and tell the story of your personal decision. That's what I'm interested in, and I trust, what other readers are also interested in.
So, do any of you nerdy, pencil-necked geeks have something to say? (Resist that compulsion to snap back!) You don't have to be particularly witty or even completely literate to explain what you think. You just need a clear sense of your own mind. I never paid much attention to what Kanye West says because I don't like rap. After hurricane Katrina, though, he said, "George Bush don't like black people." He got it in one, didn't he? That's the kind of epiphany I would like to hear.