Swing voters are idiots

[CreekDog]

look:

"Entering the evening, swing voters in this group agreed with a 48 to 16 percent plurality saying Obama “puts Wall Street ahead of the middle class.”

But after the speech, the number disagreeing with that statement jumped a remarkable 50 points, to 66 percent.

Moreover, Obama saw a 38-point increase in support for his banking reform plan and a 40-point increase in the percent saying that he “stands up to special interests.”

http://www.democracycorps.com/focus/2010/01/obama-resonates-with-swing-voters/

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I'm thrilled that Obama did well last night and thrilled that they noticed. But how much of a knucklehead do you have to be to have your mind changed so quickly about what someone "values"?

I get the feeling swing voters agree with whomever talked to them last. :eyes:

:wtf:

[FSogol]

1. You are exactly correct: "I get the feeling swing voters agree with whomever talked to them last."

There is no other explanation.

[Jennicut]

2. They don't follow the details like we do...somehow it is just too "hard" for them.

They are stupid, no other explanation. I used to be an independent, then I smartened up. I am more to the left now then I ever was.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Yes, they are

This Al Giordano send-up of them is perfect. It was posted last week after the MA debacle:

Mr. and Mrs. Independent consider the family to the right a little bit scary and weird. In the privacy of their home they might even make fun of the family on the right, which reminds them of that of the cartoon Flanders family on The Simpsons TV show. And the Independents don’t generally agree with the Flanders' obsessions against abortion and gays. Still, they share some of the same fear of people of different races (most of the Independents are white), they also resent taxes, respect the military, and they also have to contend with the family in the house to the left.

In the house to the left is a more liberal family. Really, it more resembles the Simpsons themselves. Often, if given the choice between attending a party at either neighbor’s home, Mr. and Mrs. Independent will choose the party in house on the left, as they did in 2008. The Simpsons are generally more fun than the Flanders.

But if throughout 2009 the dysfunction inside the house on the left – the screaming matches, yelling, pouting, expressions of outrage and feigned outrage – spilled out onto the street, it is kind of understandable that this month they chose to accept the invitation of the Flanders instead of that of the Simpsons.

The house in the middle contains the Bandwagon Voters. They will reliably, year in, year out, follow the neighbor that seems like it is having more fun. They’re Good Time Charlies, essentially.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3746/bandwagon-voters-and-dysfunction-left

[butterfly77]

4. I believe that too..

that is why the teabaggers and Hannity repeat their garbage 24/7 knowing that that's all they have to do is throw out a soundbite and then they latch on to it. When the President speaks to them he breaks down the situation and how it relates to their lives.

[NatBurner]

5. i read the title in Brak's voice

i have problems, i know lol

[tranche]

6. I don't think they're idiots. They consume corporate news. They still trust it.

These people are not political junkies. They don't read kos, tpm, and du all day. They get their news mainly from local evening newscasts and corporate controlled mass-consumption "local" newspapers. They still trust it -- I don't blame them for that. The political junkies need to keep working, informing, and hopefully work to figure out how to get the money out of the news/information business.

I don't think these people are stupid. They make an attempt to inform themselves. It's just that their sources are garbage. I can't jump on people for that.

[CreekDog]

7. I half-agree

but I know a lot of them that *are* news junkies that follow the blogs, comment on SFgate.com :eyes:, but they certainly don't look critically at anything they agree with.

[wowimthere]

8. Nope... they fall for the blather... how informed can you be if you latch onto what corporate media

says without doing a little homework to find out the truth?