There was a short paragraph making the rounds of the blogosphere yesterday comparing the undecided voters at the debate to the jury in a high profile case, because the only real way not to form an opinion is to not be paying attention, so you end up with those who are least interested in what's going on in the world making the decision. It also tended to set off speculation about how in the world there are African-American voters who are still undecided.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 22:16, PGage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Kevin M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I guess, for once, I'm with the public (or at least your theory about >> the public), since I thought this debate was a tie. I was unimpressed >> with both candidates. > > A couple of the undecideds in Ohio just said something similar in La > O'Brien's focus group. I have to say that I do not understand it. I > guess I don't know what it is that people are looking for from a forum > like this. Do you care about Health Care? They have two very different > approaches, they gave about as detailed and specific an explanation of > this complicated issue as anyone possibly could. If anyone really does > not know or understand the details of their health plans they can read > them on the websites - at great length. The same could be said about a > number of other issues addressed in the debate. > > But what kind of direct answer to questions like "How will you quickly > solve the current financial crisis?" (which I think was the first > question) or "Is Russia the Evil Empire?" (yes or no - thanks Tom) or > would you go to war to defend Israel from an attack by Iraq?" or > "What do you not know?" do people really expect from these guys? Those > are either invitations to respond to a Rorschach Inkblot or > invitations to give simplistic answers to simplistic questions. I > thought both of them responded to all 4 of those questions about as > well as you could expect. > > But then, I never have understood how a grown-up could be undecided > about their presidential vote at this late date, after such a long > campaign. I doubt that either of these guys have many opinions on a > public issue that anyone who has not paid even modest attention does > not already know. > > > > -- David J. Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
