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It’s All About the Undecided Voter.

Mike Weisser
2 min readSep 24, 2024

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Maybe I’m wrong, but I am still convinced that in a tight election, the only thing that really matters is the size of the dog-shit with scattered glass vote, or what David Sedaris calls the ‘undecided’ voter.

The problem is that Sedaris published this remarkable piece of political satire in 2008, when one could make the argument that deciding between John McCain and Barack Obama was perhaps a little more daunting than figuring out the difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

After all, how can anyone be undecided about Donald Trump?

Be that as it may, the fact is that Sedaris put out his piece just 16 days prior to the 2008 election date, whereas we still have 40 days until the big shebang this year, or almost 6 weeks left for people to make up their minds.

The other difference is that the undecided vote in 2008 was still almost 8 percent, whereas today that same number is slightly less than 4 percent. Which means that if this year’s dogshit which is still on the dinner table were to split 50–50 between the two sides, Kamal would get 51% and Trump could go take a leap.

This same breakdown between decided versus dogshit voters that favors Kamala carries over to the so-called battleground states as well. Trump is slightly ahead when the numbers from all seven swing states…

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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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