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...Being a moderate is a difficult position to take, yet it’s this crucial subset of the electorate that eventually provides the four-year mandate for a candidate to lead. The undecided voter has a duty to take into account all pertinent issues before making an informed decision; the research is exhausting, but is worth a lot more than simply subscribing to the claims of attack...
...like to offer a few words in defense of the undecided voter, if only because she - about 63% of this year's undecideds are women, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press - is entirely uninfected by that great enemy of deliberative democracy: wild-eyed enthusiasm. Unlike the freakishly devoted Obama acolytes and those rabid, occasionally obscenity-shouting McCain-Palin fans, the undecided voter is taking her time. She's also one of the few Americans whose vote this year could actually be decisive, since some polls in swing states like Florida and Missouri show the undecided...
...obvious question: Who could possibly be undecided at this point? McCain and Obama have been running for President for nearly two years. For those of us who follow politics, it's difficult to imagine that, at this late date, a voter could learn anything dispositive about these two men. In fact, we know them a little too well. We know that Obama has a thing for nicotine and that McCain acted like a cad with his first wife. We know the Senators' tics and mannerisms, their preferred methods of verbal indirection, their expressions when they're angry or surprised...
...From this demographic picture, political junkies may snort in condescension about undecideds. But they should remember that some people have a real life, one not spent constantly refreshing the polling averages on RealClearPolitics.com. On Friday, the Los Angeles Times' Faye Fiore wrote movingly about one undecided voter, 63-year-old Regina Hansley of Philo, Ohio...
...short, we should give the undecided voter a break. She's busy. She's not a political person. And she cares a lot about making the right selection...