With a week to go until the election, professional talkers are talking about the voters who have not yet made up their minds. In the past few days, I’ve heard governors, senators, congresspeople, and pundits of every stripe opine on who these people are and what they need to hear in order to come to a decision. But what I haven’t heard anyone ask is this:
What percentage of the people still undecided a week before such an historic election as this will actually bother voting?
They’ve got the stats on everyone else. I think I read somewhere that 48.69% of Caucasian women recently divorced from Samoans and currently remarried to Irish-American blue-collar men who prefer wine to beer (even with fish) plan to vote for Obama.
Why no stats on how many late undecideds actually vote? I’m betting it’s because almost none of them do – so there’s really not much left to talk about for those who get paid by the spoken word.
Really, anyone who still can’t decide between these two candidates, campaigns, parties, and VP selections, has got to be:
- terminally uninterested in politics,
- mired in an inescapable morass of ambiguity so dense they can't choose whether to brush their teeth horizontally or vertically, much less gather the resolve needed to leave the house and go stand in line to vote, or
- too damned stupid to find their way to a polling place and pull a lever.
