The Ignorant Vote
meatnub
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/Equal_time_for_the_willfully_ignorant.html
"the report of a focus group, featuring 12 independent voters, that
was conducted earlier this week in swing-state Virginia by the noted
Democratic pollster, Peter Hart."
"12 focus-group participants are not close followers of politics. None
of them voted in Virginia's Democratic or Republican primaries. All of
them feel like "the election has been going on forever," but none of
them have bothered to learn anything about it. All they know is what
they have heard - or, more significantly, misheard. And these
independents are potentially pivotal in November; in Hart's words,
they "represent 20 percent of the electorate.""
"For instance, here's Dorita, opining about Obama: "I'm a little
concerned. I don't know enough about his Muslim background and their
beliefs and how he views everything. I'm a little concerned. I need to
check his background.""
"Here's Melinda, clearly the GOP's dream voter: "I just really feel
like he's...not a people pleaser as in the Americans, but the other
people who don't necessarily need to be pleased, the other, the
enemies if you will, I don't know. I'm just not real positive on
that.""
"Because here's Danny, one of your fellow citizens: "(The race) has
gone on so long....They all kind of say the same thing. They're all
saying the same thing, so what's to get excited about?""
*shudder*
ZerkonX
> "the report of a focus group, featuring 12 independent voters, that was
> conducted earlier this week in swing-state Virginia by the noted
> Democratic pollster, Peter Hart."
Want to stop being ignorant....