“To put [undecided voters] in perspective, I think of being on an airplane.
The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of sh*t with bits of broken glass in it?’
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.”— Humorist David Sedaris in a 2008 New Yorker column. The comparison has only gotten more relevant.
HDTex
“It’s not cooked and we rolled it in the shit. They both went out with the same cooks and got the same spices of botulism and a ton of ground bribery.”
But somehow passing on both or demanding better is seen as not an option.
missvamp
pretty much. the idiots who vote for the 3rd party or write someone in- totally wasting your vote. suck it up & vote out trump. do the right thing!
otttovan
The problem in your analogy at this point is that even if you don’t like the chicken, you’re going to be force fed one of the options. There is no chance at a third option right now, so it’s more “Do you want to be shot in the foot, or the face?” There’s a bullet either way, and it will not miss you. Do you want to outsource that decision to other people?
Cam
Translation: You support Trump.
Mister P
I think undecided voters are people who are not going to vote but they are too embarrassed to admit it in a poll. No one could really be undecided about this election in particular.
whateverokok
If I want to write in my choice when I vote I will do so. And no one can shame either. Especially when the only two candidates to choose from are worse than shoving a needle in your butt cheek and leaving it there for a year. Wasting my vote would be voting for the idiots running.
Cam
Sorry sweetums, this screename already got exposed a few threads back as being just another different screename for the same right wing troll that always defends Trump.
But C+ for effort.
trsxyz
That sounds about right…
radiooutmike
I don’t understand how it is a head-scratcher either way?!
If you’re rich or racist, you’ll vote for Trump.
If you want the country to teeter back from the brink, you’ll vote for Biden.
I can’t imagine being someone who is still undecided about who will they vote for in the election.
Cam
“Undecided” = Trump supporters who don’t want to admit publicly that they’re racists.
lord.krath
You can “demand better,” but you cannot pass on both. That is the issue at hand. Choices must be made. If you abdicate your responsibility, then you cannot “demand better.” This is what responsible people do. Make choices, even hard ones.
Inspector 57
Last election time, I bit my cheek and voted for Clinton, even though I think she’s a total b*tch with zero integrity.
This year, I’ll vote for Biden, even though I’m not crazy about him (and am unsure that he will even survive for the next four years).
What is this “undecided” sh*t? You look at facts and you make your best judgment.
(I will say I gotta admit that it is a travesty that Democrats haven’t been able to come up with stronger candidates that would make the choice more clear-cut.)