With 168 hours (give or take) left in one of the most important elections in the last 100 years in this country, can someone please tell me exactly what the hell are the last few undecided voters waiting for to make up their minds?
Do I live in some alternate universe where Barack Obama and John McCain haven’t been campaigning daily for the last few months?
Was I missing something when I watched 3 presidential debates and 1 vice presidential debate?
My question to my fellow Kossacks is: What does Barack have to do to gain the vote of these bizarre people?
Does anyone have any idea what to do about these last 1-2% of the population that have not watched TV or read a newspaper in the last 5 months?
I think the McCain campaign has reverted back to their tried and true "scare the old white people" routine to secure their base and damn the undecideds. Shouldn't Barack sure up his base of new voters, African Americans, Latinos, women, and rational people like you and me?
Does anyone know of the strategies Team Obama has for getting out the youth vote especially?
I was able to obtain this picture of one of the last remaining undecided voters in the United States of America:
I watched some bizarre group of 12 undecided Ohio voters on CSPAN and STILL, these people are undecided. I think it was filmed on October 26h.
However, these were 12 older, all white, independents, conservative democrats, or republicans that haven’t made up their minds yet.
Is this all that's left of the undecided voters?
To quote myself, "My fu*kcing ass these are 12 undecided voters."
There’s just no such thing as an undecided voter in this election.
The reality is what every pollster with a brain already knows: these people are voting McCain. That’s fine with me. It’s a generational thing for these people. That’s why they love McCain, because he’s one of them and they love Palin because her thoughts are as backwards theirs are on a myriad of issues.
My other guess is that the kind of attacks McCain and Palin are using are working on people like these. They're referred to as "low information voters." That's a nice way of saying they've never read a peer-reviewed journal, attempted to get outside opinion, read for knowledge, and find the cavemen in the Geico commercials offensive because cavemen never existed in the bible.
In April's Science journal, an article concerning these undecided voters had this to say:
...researchers report that people who think they are undecided about an issue often have made up their mind at an unconscious level.
So while the latest national polls show that between 5% and 15% of Americans still don't know who they will be voting for in November, the percentage of voters who truly are undecided may actually be much smaller, social psychologist Bertram Gawronski, PhD, of the University of Western Ontario tells WebMD.
"It's not that people are lying to the pollsters," Gawronski tells WebMD. "It's that they may not consciously recognize the automatic associations that influence their decisions."
The good news is that their votes are going to be drowned out by: the youth vote, the Latino vote, the gigantic African American vote, and anyone that has a conscience vote.
Now I'm 33 and have no idea what the 18-24 crowd is up to these days, but I'm wondering if anyone knows the GOTV strategy the Obama campaign has deployed for this election?