How 10 Undecided Voters Made Up Their Minds

[elleng]

'Many voters went into the midterm elections planning to side with their political tribes. But across almost 100 House and Senate polls that The New York Times conducted this fall, about 10 percent of voters — more than enough to tilt many contests in either direction — said they were undecided, even in the final stretch of the campaign.

This week, we talked to more than two dozen of them to learn if they had since decided, and how.

Nearly all of them had been reaching for some criteria other than pure partisanship. Six said they usually voted Republican, or had done so all their adult lives, but chose to abandon their party’s candidates this fall. Some said they wanted a divided government as a check on President Trump. Others said he needed freedom to keep pushing his policies.

The group is not representative of all voters, or even all previously undecided voters. But their words show how it’s possible, even in such partisan times, to remain on the fence. This is what 10 of them told us.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/02/upshot/how-undecided-voters-decided.html?

[beachbum bob]

1. I have no idea how any one could be "undecided" if they pay attention 10 minutes a day to

the darkness growing over america

[Afromania]

3. exactly, these people are a bunch of liars.

They know exactly who they want to vote for. If you need to be told that the gop platform is misery and death for anybody that's not them, including their sick ass voters, then you simply aren't paying any attention to anything.

[Afromania]

2. I read through that article and coudl only think these people are so stupid.

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They all claim to be indy but it sounds like they are all republican voters that don't want to come out and say they are republican voters. If you need any convincing that the republican party is full of shit you aren't paying any attention. If you think they "just" became insane. You aren't paying any fucking attention.

I especially liked the dude that "researched" his candidates before deciding to vote republican. If you have an "eye" for gun rights and lower taxes then you are a fucking republican. Don't blow smoke up our asses and playing peekaboo pretend I'm not what I appear to be.

This nonsense is how we got here. A bunch of lying ass people that don't want to tell you they are really republicans. Infact, I wouldn't be surprised if every single one of them to a person ended up voting republican despite anything they told WSJ. I mean, I didn't see any real "support" for Democratic policies from them. Only regrets that "now" the republicans are insane.

While it may help us this time to have them back Democratic candidates it's not support that can be counted on. The true Democratic voters better stay up because once this total shit show is over. The more low key bullshitters will be back with complete with the republican fuckery playbook tucked securely in their back pockets. Every one of these people will most likely go back to voting republican with a "clean" conscience.

That's how we got here from Obama and I don't trust any of them.

[FakeNoose]

4. I know exactly how I plan to vote

... but I have no interest in telling the nosy pollsters how I'm voting. Probably if I had accidentally answered one of their calls, I would have said that I'm "undecided" even though I 'm not. It's the pollsters and their annoying phone calls that are the problem.

Just sayin'