With Three Months to Go, Uncertainty Reigns for Undecided Voters

Yahoo News ^ | August 10, 2012 | Tim Skillern

[Olog-hai]

Lyn Vaccaro admits it: "I'm officially an undecided voter."

That's a big confession for the 50-year-old single mom in Milwaukee, who says she has spent "a significant amount of time as a well-known conservative."

But Vaccaro, who works at a natural foods store, says she now feels that she can't put her support behind either candidate. …

"I'm dreading November," Columbus, Ohio, public school teacher S. Alexander Cooke writes. "Why? Come Election Day, I'll cast my vote either to re-elect President Obama or to replace him with Mitt Romney. Either way I'll end up feeling like I'm the only one of the three of us who's willing to compromise." …

"I don't know whom I will choose," Virginian Lyn Brooks writes. "But either way, I will probably be holding my nose when I make my selection."

The 44-year-old writer and novelist voted for Obama in 2008. And while change arrived, many changes weren't for the better. She writes that she disagrees with the president's policy of raising taxes on the rich: "The answer lies in increasing private sector employment, particularly in the small-business sector." …

[Rastus]

Mitt shouldn’t even have to campaign. Americans should be champing at the bit to throw this stain on America out. People who can support this man after these four years are alien to me.

[Road Glide]

“With Three Months to Go, Uncertainty Reigns for Undecided Voters”

If they haven’t made up their minds by now, they’re incapable of doing so.

For the vast majority of the “undecideds”, their “choice” will ultimately be “made externally”, by someone or something else.

I call these voters “the waving wheats”. Like the stalks of wheat in the field, they are collectively “blown” one way, then the other, by the force of the prevailing political winds.

These folks could watch every minute of all of the debates, and STILL remain “uncommitted”. They are simply afraid to choose, for by choosing they will be seen as actually “standing for something”. When in truth, they are terrified of having to defend themselves politically for ANY position they favor.

Even the ‘rats, who I despise, at least claim they believe in something, even if it’s wrong.

The “undecideds” are incapable of believing in anything, and that’s why they can’t “commit”...