This video pretty much sums up my position on the so-called, "Independents" and "Undecided" voters. You've had almost four months of a general election campaign to research the candidate's policies and positions. You've also had time to fact-check their stances and attacks. Now you are sitting in the little rooms with CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC with your "response-o-meters" to make squiggly lines on the bottom of the screen. If you make your choice for President based on the debates, kill yourself please. This way we will have more intelligent voters the next time around. The candidates are never going to answer fully your questions in detail because they are politicians! What presidential campaign can you remember where they would answer questions in full detail? You have to do the research on your own. Get over yourself and pick a candidate already!
The reason they do not do this is for two reasons. One, they do not want to bore voters with a lecture on their policies. Did you ever go to school and listen to teachers? Did you have fun listening to a lecture? Two, laying out their plans in full detail gives the opponent ammunition for attack. This will give the opponent tons of bait to nit-pick in a plan. If you want detail, they have a little more detail on their websites. Also there is plenty of independent websites that lay out each of the candidate's plan and previous policies.
Now to all those who aren't voting for Obama/Biden '08:
HAHA!
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I have been of the opinion for a long time that there should be some kind of a check system before you're allowed to vote.
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Do you know what your vote means?
Are you capable of understanding the issues at hand in discussed policies?
Do you understand the implications of the legislation you are voting on?
As you've said before...people shouldn't be voting blind, relying only on emotion. The President shouldn't be who we feel we best connect with...who looks out for "me." It should be someone who is worldly more knowledgeable than ourselves, someone who looks out for the greater good of the nation and all its constituents, someone who is not afraid to explain things for exactly what they are.
Is that really too much to ask for?
Oops, probably is! *laughs*
There were some studies in 2004 that pretty much removed the label "undecided" from these voters. Really, they have a preference but prefer the illusion of independence. The number of "undecideds" has already been cut in recent weeks and I expect them to break for Obama.
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