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How Can Anyone Be an Undecided Voter?

Mike Weisser
4 min readOct 21, 2024

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So, here we go again. With two weeks until the day of all days, we are once again having to deal with the dog-shit vote, or maybe it’s the warm dog-shit with cut glass vote, but either way, what David Sedaris said about the ‘undecided’ voter during the 2008 Presidential campaign is certainly more true today.

This time around talking about people who can’t decide whether to vote for Kammie or Orange Shithead is discussed by the WaPo which has just released a poll which found a sizable number of so-called ‘likely’ voters in the battleground states who could go either way, although among this group, Comma-la has a slight lead.

If there were voters out there who couldn’t make up their minds about Obama versus McCain in 2008, how can there be anyone out there today who can’t figure out whether they should be voting for her or for him this time around?

By the way, I’m not giving a link to the poll itself because it’s sitting behind the motherfucking paywall put up there by the WaPo, and I have decided that having to pay for internet content after I already pay Hughes a hundred bucks a month just to get the fucking internet into my laptop at home is more than I should bear.

It’s not the hundred bucks, mind you — I’ve got plenty of dough. It’s the whole idea that the internet, which was supposed to be a digital…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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