{"id":4253,"date":"2008-10-22T18:38:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T22:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2008-10-22T18:38:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T22:38:47","slug":"who-are-these-%e2%80%9cundecided%e2%80%9d-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"Who are these \u201cUndecided\u201d Voters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this were an election between \u201cMaverick\u201d McCain and \u201cModerate\u201d Bill Clinton, I could understand these late hold outs better but the difference between McCain and the most liberal politician to ever show up on a November ballot is puzzling in deed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YzJjMDgyZTEwZDJjOTc1NTU2ZWEyN2YxMWIzZmQ5YTI=\">National Review <\/a>has a great piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s humorist David Sedaris in that bastion of sophistication, The New Yorker, on undecided voters:<\/p>\n<p>To put them 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. \u201cCan I interest you in the chicken?\u201d she asks. \u201cOr would you prefer the platter of s\u2014t with bits of broken glass in it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a great analogy.<\/p>\n<p>Most conservatives view John McCain about as favorably as most people view airline food (myself included) but the alternative is \u2026 well you know what it is, with bits of broken glass in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this were an election between \u201cMaverick\u201d McCain and \u201cModerate\u201d Bill Clinton, I could understand these &hellip; <a title=\"Who are these \u201cUndecided\u201d Voters?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4253\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who are these \u201cUndecided\u201d Voters?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}