{"id":2351,"date":"2008-10-09T09:55:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/undecided_voter\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T09:55:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T13:55:26","slug":"undecided_voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/10\/undecided_voter\/","title":{"rendered":"Undecided Voters Blaming Canidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this stage in an election campaign it&#8217;s getting difficult for me to relate to &#8220;undecided&#8221; voters.  Why can&#8217;t they, or don&#8217;t they, make up their minds?  What are they waiting for?<br \/>\nAs far as I can tell, there are two primary reasons.  They are either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extremely wishy washy and want to &#8220;open-minded&#8221; rather than make a commitment, or they<\/li>\n<li>Just don&#8217;t care about politics in general, and don&#8217;t want to invest much time or effort into making a decision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was amused by a CNN segment I saw last night on undecided women voters.  A reporter showed up as they had a debate-watching party.<br \/>\n&#8220;What are you looking to see, to help you decide?&#8221; the reporter asked.<br \/>\nA couple of women said they were looking for the candidates to offer specific proposals to help them with their problems, rather than general talking points.<br \/>\nAfter the debate several of the undecideds expressed disappointment because the candidates did not get &#8220;specific&#8221; enough.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure why these women seemed surprised by this.  The candidates talk in simplistic terms, among other reasons, because they are trying to appeal to voters who can&#8217;t make up their minds.  If they were to throw a boatload of statistics at a marginally-interested voter, the viewer would simply turn away in boredom.<br \/>\nNote to the undecided women: if you really want to know more details on what the candidates are proposing, you simply have to visit their websites.  It&#8217;s really not that difficult.  Otherwise, stop blaming the candidates because you can&#8217;t make up your mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/10\/undecided_voter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Undecided Voters Blaming Canidates\"><p>At this stage in an election campaign it&#8217;s getting difficult for me to relate to &#8220;undecided&#8221; voters. Why can&#8217;t they, or don&#8217;t they, make up their minds? What are they waiting for? As far as I can tell, there are two primary reasons. They are either: Extremely wishy washy and want to &#8220;open-minded&#8221; rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}