Morford - Who The Hell Is "Undecided"?

[realFedUp]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/09/10/notes091004.DTL&nl=fix

Who The Hell Is "Undecided"?
And why do so many election polls leave you angry
and stupefied and drunk?

- By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, September 10, 2004

Polls are the genital warts of election year. They are the swarming gnats in your Jell-O salad, the dead escalator in your shopping mall, the sour milk in your coffee.

These polls are designed solely to mangle your head and confound your synapses and elate you and titillate you and then plunge you into instant despair and then yank you back out at the last second like some sort of "Fear Factor" death-plunge moronism.

I know I am not alone in this sentiment.

But wait, not so fast. Because then BushCo had his big, tearful, gay-hatin', war-lovin' GOP convention and whored the 9/11 theme so shamelessly you could veritably feel the World Trade Center victims cringing in their graves.
But they do force you to ask: What the hell just happened? What changed? Why do these polls flip so ridiculously?
Because if you're paying any sort of attention at all, the differences between the party stances seems so agonizingly obvious, between not just the candidates, but between the tone and timbre of the country overall, of how we should be led and how we should be viewed and how we should be spoken to, between the openly violent, peace-hating, fear-happy, environment-loathing, homophobic worldview of the Bushies, and the more tolerant, issues-oriented, politically intelligent, less tyrannical worldview of the Kerryites on the other.

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[hlthe2b]

1. thanks Mark Morford for that reality check....

[Catfight]

2. Yup....you either hate and beat and kick women=repug, or you don't,

=dems.

[drfemoe]

3. kickaroo

This is Mark at his Best!

I think he reads DU .. Goddess bless him for now and evermore.