Members of the political class may disparage undecided voters, but we at least tend to impute to them a basic rationality. We're giving them too much credit.
Turns out the undecided may be smarter than the activist:
Then there was the woman who called our office a few weeks before the election to tell us that though she had signed up to volunteer for Kerry she had now decided to back Bush. Why? Because the president supported stem cell research. The office became quiet as we all stopped what we were doing to listen to one of our fellow organizers try, nobly, to disabuse her of this notion.
Ummm, wasn't it President Bush who first allowed federal funding for some embryo stem cell research, annoying a portion of his base in the process? Undecided voter 1, liberal dope 0.
