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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-08 09:49 AM
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Poll question: Do undecided voters have a central nervous system?
After two years and 40+ debates, is it possible that we have fully functioning human beings without a system for processing information and controlling essential bodily functions, such as breathing? Some university should be doing a study on this...
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-08 09:54 AM
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1. I like what David Sedaris says about these people...
Taken from Sedaris's article in the New Yorker:

"To put them (undecided voters) in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”

To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

I mean, really, what’s to be confused about?


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/10/27/081027sh_shouts_sedaris
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-08 09:55 AM
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2. Great line! Thanks for that! (nt)
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PATRICK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-08 10:08 AM
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3. I really question
whether they separate truly undecided voters from those who never will share their vote decision publicly with anyone or those who always say their mind is open when their own decision(kept even from themselves sometimes!) has been made. Or, what mechanisms they will resort to the last day(the way choose to file tax forms) to flip their particular coin(often these people just lean to the perceived winner as conventional wisdom).
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