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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:17 PM
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6% who voted in Florida don't know who they voted for President!

Rachel just showed the poll. They don't know who they voted for president
even after they voted.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:18 PM
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1. AKA: I refuse to tell a pollster.
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Myrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:44 PM
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18. My thought exactly ...
"I voted for ITS NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS you hack!" would be my response.


:shrug:
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eshfemme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:18 PM
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2. Is this possibly referring to the vote switching problems?
I've been hearing reports that there's been problems in a few counties so it's possible that 6% just don't know because they don't even know if their votes registered correctly.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:19 PM
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5. Florida is done on paper ballots that are scanned in. (kinda like the SAT answer sheet)
they are ashamed to say they voted for the white guy
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Mariana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:42 PM
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16. Some of them may be
afraid to say they voted for the black guy. Especially if their conservonut and/or racist friends or family are within earshot.
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Parker CA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:49 PM
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23. My thought exactly. Very likely these are white voters afraid to say they voted for
a black candidate.

I'd venture that 5 of that 6% goes to Obama.
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PermanentRevolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:19 PM
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6. We don't use touch-screens anymore
We have the bubble-in kind that you scan.
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:18 PM
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3. Well, it is Florida after all
Home of the hanging chad. :shrug:
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rgbecker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:18 PM
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4. ?
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:20 PM
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7. They didn't say that their vote was in question they said they couldn't remember
YIKES
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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:20 PM
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8. I've been phone banking for Obama all week...
There are about 5% of those who voted already (early voting) who won't say who they voted for. I'm assuming they're McCain voters, because if they were Obama supporters.. they'd be happy to tell the Obama phone banker about it, right?
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Blasphemer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:21 PM
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9. Yes... these "won't say" types are surely McCain voters
Speaks volumes that they are ashamed of the vote they cast.
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Mariana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:44 PM
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20. Not necessarily.
If their nutjob racist family or "friends" are with them, they might be literally AFRAID to say they voted (or will vote) for Obama.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:22 PM
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10. Well, I would like to see more of this poll she mentioned
After all its Florida and even has brain dead people that helped run Congress
and the national agenda at times.
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abumbyanyothername Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:45 PM
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22. Not necessarily
I run into types who say, "I'm not telling." And I am pretty sure it was Obama in at least one case, but he just didn't want to say.

But not "I forgot."
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The Shadow Donating Member (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:22 PM
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11. I Think They Just Won't Say
Edited on Wed Oct-29-08 08:24 PM by The Shadow
It's funny but I was talking to several coworkers today about voting and was surprised that 3 of 5 of us still held the old fashioned belief that you never talk about who you vote for. Talking further to them, all 3 said that that was how they were raised and even their mother and father would not discuss who they each voted for. My grandparents were like that as well. I think that's where the 6% I don't knows come from.
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RollWithIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:23 PM
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12. Let me make this clear: PEOPLE EXIT POLLS AND DON'T WANT TO SAY WHO THEY VOTED FOR
So they say, "don't know."

Florida votes on paper ballots. We fill in a circle on a page like we were taking a test in high school. We use black pens to fill in the oval. There are no touch screens. There are no chads. See name, fill in oval next to name. That's it.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:23 PM
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13. Won't say who they voted for...
is that surprising? I know my parents always said "Never discuss politics or religion", and they really had a thing about their vote being nobody's business.
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1corona4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:36 PM
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14. Yeah, right. They stood in line for HOURS, just to vote
for someone, but they can't remember who? I don't think so.....
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:38 PM
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15. that's why I don't trust exit polls

a lot of people don't want to discuss their vote.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:43 PM
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17. "I can't recall"
standard repuke catchphrase since Iran-contra.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:44 PM
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19. It begins with "Mc" and ends with
impending disaster looming. :scared:
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:45 PM
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21. I've said that myself, is polite for "none of your business, my vote is private"
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CitizenPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 08:52 PM
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24. I found this phone banking too
but it was mostly older folks who really take the privacy thing to heart. Manny of them were confirmed Obama supporters who refused to say who they voted for.

The other volunteers also noticed it with the absentee ballot crowd, many of whom are older.
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