2012 challenge: Corral undecided likely voters (A mentality I will NEVER understand.)

[No Elephants]

Sep 23, 8:45 AM EDT

2012 challenge: Corral undecided likely voters

By NANCY BENAC and JENNIFER AGIESTA
Associated Press

(AP News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius and Associated Press writer Stacy A. Anderson contributed to this report.)


ASHINGTON (AP) -- Loretta Mitchell is 100 percent sure she's going to vote in the presidential race come November. She doesn't have a clue who'll get that vote.

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With six hard-fought weeks left in the campaign, just 7 percent of likely voters have yet to pick a candidate, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. When combined with those who are leaning toward one candidate or the other but far from firm in their choice, about 17 percent of likely voters are what pollsters consider "persuadable."

That includes 6 percent who give soft support to Obama and 4 percent for Romney.

Lots more:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CAMPAIGN_THE_UNDECIDEDS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-23-08-45-09



The article claims that the undecideds skew "slightly Democratic."

Every indie I have ever run into is, at bottom, of the "I don't want to pay taxes" group. And, because of the reputation with which Republicans have falsely stuck Dems--"tax and spend Democrats," that means they skew Republican.

No one looks at how many times Reagan and Poppy raised taxes or how much Dummya and others spent without paying for it. "Tax and spend" is all they've heard over and over and all that has stuck with the little dears.

Maybe that is because I have always lived in blue states in the northeast, where Republicans prefer to label themselves "independent." (Who wants to piss off the Mayor?)


One so-called indie interviewed claimed to decide usually on election day!

:wtf: