The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent
vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums
here.
We now return to our regularly scheduled PA Forums. Please let me (Hahnsoo1) know if something isn't working. The Holiday Forum will remain up until January 10, 2025.
The brainless abortions AKA undecided voters [SPLIT]
Posts
And as for decided voters making stupid decisions, too, I would argue that:
% of decided voters who make retarded, uninformed decisions <<< % of undecided voters who make retarded, uninformed decisions.
There's what you actually said to people who didn't say a thing about restricting the rights of anyone.
It's not reading into it. It's reading it. You should have said,"You will NEVERWRAAWR see me saying that anti-semites shouldn't vote based on their views"
On the black screen
To the OP, what a load of tripe! The primaries aren't even over yet. Then there are debates leading up to the general election. Things are discussed. Things are said. It DOES make a difference. My vote was definitely decided in '04 based on statements made in a debate.
Are you advocating blind party-line politics? While I don't think I'm going to be deciding last-minute in the booth, I do think I might be deciding based on one of the many relevant events and speeches that will occur between now and November.
Still, though.
Although I'd be interesting in knowing what you hope to gleam from debates that could help you make up your mind between Obama and McCain. I can't exactly imagine deliberating anxiously between picking one of them.
On the black screen
Wow... it's called a thread split, genious... if only it mentioned that in the title... OH WAIT.
Undecided voters in Penn are only undecided now based on apathy and ignorance, and as such, I don't think they should be going into that booth and spewing that ignorance all over my democracy. And frankly, your inability to comprehend this thread kind of makes me feel that way about you, as well.
Someone breaks into both campaigns and publishes audio on youtube of all their internal meeting minutes?
Anyway, I guess if your reasoning were sound, then Obama and Clinton would both stop campaigning altogether. But no, they are constantly making their voice heard, and while they might not be announcing whole new policy platforms, each sentence has the potential to reveal something about their mindset, values, or intentions that you didn't catch before.
In short, you are smug and ignorant for claiming some sort of authority on how decisions are to be made or not to be made.
Yeah, I guess I am... also, you may or may not notice the word Pennsylvania in the title of the last thread, but whatever...
Give me one sound reason why someone would be undecided at this point. Just one. Are they waiting for Jesus to tell them who to vote for?
If your Cheerios spell out O, it's an Obama day.
Regardless of whether people should have made up their minds already, roughly a tenth of them clearly haven't, hence the campaigning.
At any rate, that entire paragraph does not apply to people who have been paying attention for the past several months. The information necessary to pretty accurately assess all three candidates has been available to anyone who wanted it for months. Unless you think shit like the revelation that Obama and a former terrorist both taught classes at the same university is relevant.
this is not a photoshop
Often in answering a rather typical question with a rather typical response, a candidate will phrase the response slightly differently in such a way that suddenly reveals something about how they think about the issue that wasn't clear before, positive or negative, that maybe only certain people are tuned into. I'm speaking from experience here.
Knowing full well that my vote has been switched in past elections due to a telling twist of phrase that 99.99% of people didn't notice or care about makes me very confident in being "undecided" for quite a while and furthermore makes me feel more intelligent than the rest of you for it.
(But I'm not undecided. I voted for Obama in the Dem primaries in GA.)
The policy differences between Obama and Clinton are realitively minimal (healthcare for all vs healthcare cost reduction, etc). More often than not they're pretty much on the same page. I honestly think there's legitimacy in someone's claim that they're undecided because they're indifferent (as opposed to apathetic, which be dumb).
Our first game is now available for free on Google Play: Frontier: Isle of the Seven Gods
Waiting until you're standing in the voting booth to make a decision doesn't make you insightful, intelligent, or superior to the people who have already made up their minds; in fact, you should probably get tested for clinical retardation.
Where it boggles the mind is in something like the General Election. When your choices are as different as they are in the US, there's no excuse for being undecided. The truth is, at that point anyone with even a hint of intelligence has already figured out or has had the opportunity to figure out which side matches their point of view.
Undecideds, Swing voters, whatever, these are the morons. The people either too lazy to learn anything, but not lazy enough not to vote. Or the people for whom "Which candidate looks better sitting in a tank" is the most important issue. These people are, in short, the stupidest people any country has to offer. And they are the ones who decide elections.
It doesn't mean you keep changing your mind, it pretty much means "I dunno what button I'll press tomorrow". That either means you lack enough information to make a choice, or you're the dipshit who can't pick what he wants on the mcdonalds menu.
This thread split is mostly people who Do follow the elections expressing frustration that people who are militantly unaware of what's going on are likely going to decide the winner. That's frustrating, because it means no amount of policy or campaigning matters, and these are people you can flat out LIE to and it won't have a negative repercussion. I can make up any scandal I want and put it in front of these people five minutes prior to the vote, and they'll have lacked enough information going into the situation to understand it's bullshit.
It's a voting block that thrives on shitty politics. On the anti-intellectualism that seems to be pervasive in parts of this country. Yeah, I'm a little annoyed when they're the swing choice, because logic and reason go right out the window. I Do have the same issue when people are blindly loyal to something, be it a choice they made 7 months ago, or a race, a gender, or a party. I have the same dislike of people who just check D or R the whole way down a ballot. If you are unaware of the questions being asked, please either get informed, or skip the question. This isn't a rights question, it's simply asking that you not risk fucking other people over for less than a policy disagreement. Hell, if you voted because you honestly believe everything Lou Dobbs says, I value your input more than someone who simply checks D all the way down a list without even figuring out what's going on. :x
Them having someone they are going to vote for would be a great first step.
"Do you know who you are going to vote for in 3 minutes?"
"No"
"Then go back outside and think about it for a bit, we'll be here"
Anyways, it's a moot point. Expressing frustration != Banning from Voting.
So if they wake up that morning and go "OhfuckitVOTEOBAMA" it's somehow more relevant than if they got to the booth and thought "Well, from what limited bit of news I have seen I think Obama would be a better President?" And these are both less relevant than if they had watched 45 minutes of news that week, and decided for Obama 5 days before the vote? Which would in turn be less relevant than 30 minutes of what some people consider 'better' news, or maybe both of those would be trumped by 2 hours of Google?
You're either trying to basically nail down what is informed vs. not informed, or you are complaining about retards being retarded, one of those is an excercise in futility and the other one is just a waste, and if we just made a thread every time we felt the need to vent then the front page of DnD would be loaded with "LOLBUSH" "LOLFUNDIES" "LOLFURRIES" posts and you wouldn't be able to find any sort of discussion.
You're meta moderating a mod-split topic? Okay!
The actual cutoff for an informed voter is very hard to pin down. We've pretty much been discussing it in the "if you're answering a survey the night before a vote with "uh, I dunno", you probably should sit down right then and read up on it. If you show up to a polling station and still don't have a clue? You're probably not an informed voter.
I stopped disagreeing with anything before the racism even came up.
Read the thread.
When have we been discussing low information voters as opposed to uninformed voters? Low information voters are aggravating, but the thread started and continued to be about the undecided at the minute of the button push types. Which is pretty heavily skewed in favor of the No Information Voter.
I said NOTHING about being allowed to vote period. I was talking about what their votes were based on. Rewrite the sentance as "base their vote on their views" if that works better for you.
Are you sure you want to say things like that?
I don't know what half the shit on my ballot was. I didn't vote on it. I knew the presidential candidates, that was it. I follow the race FAR closer than my friends, who had such notions as not knowing who Obama was (even as "that black dude"), and thinking Ron Paul just wanted to lower taxes.
I live in a relatively intellectual town. You're telling me all of Rural America pays a shitload of attention to anything other than the names of candidates they see in signs? It seems no matter where you poll, ~10% will be militantly ignorant.
I did that many pages ago already. Before the thread was even split, in fact.
I don't blame folks for maybe misinterpretting something I said, but if they want to start up a debate with me, they ought to at least read through my other posts, and see where I clarified what I was saying, and bowed out.
I'm just here now to clarify, and talk about my grandmother.
Okay, since you're Captain Answer today, you can answer my post from last page.
Give me one reason, one freaking reason, why someone would step into a polling booth as an undecided voter.