Nervous American Voters Worried About Botching Another Election

[meegbear]

According to a Rasmussen poll released Thursday, nearly all American voters share a deeply held fear of botching another election in 2012, with the majority admitting that selecting candidates suitable for public office is something they are just not very good at.

"When I think about how bad things are already, I can't help but worry that it's going to get infinitely worse once we step into the voting booth next November," said Gavin Daniels, 34, of Columbus, OH, one of 1,200 registered voters who participated in the survey. "This country has repeatedly screwed itself over at the ballot box, and I have this really sickening, unshakable feeling we're going to do it again next year. That's just sort of what we do."

"I keep asking myself, 'Am I going to completely fuck things up by dropping the ball on my vote for president and sending someone patently corrupt or incompetent to Congress?" he continued. "And the answer for me and millions of other American voters is yeah, probably. God knows we do almost every time."

According to the poll, 9 out of 10 likely voters said they did not trust themselves to make choices that were in the nation's best interests, three-quarters said Election Day panic would likely cause them to base their votes entirely on hearsay, and 93 percent admitted that when it came to state and local races they would probably only recognize the names of candidates who had been featured prominently in attack ads.

In addition, almost all respondents said they feared being unable to summon the self-discipline required to read any proposition or ballot initiative running longer than 150 words.

The poll also suggested that despite a presidential campaign season that now lasts a full year and a half, American voters feel they still fail to acquire useful information about the relative merits of a candidate, acknowledging that on the whole, they cannot make the sound decisions required of a functioning electorate in a representative democracy.

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/nervous-american-voters-worried-about-botching-ano,26265/

[HopeHoops]

1. Don't worry. Diebold will take care of botching it for us.

[defendandprotect]

5. +1000% --- and vote to END corporate/facism --- and candidates who sell out to them -- !!

[teddy51]

6. You got that right! n/t

[nichomachus]

2. How not to botch an election

1. Shoot your TV
2. Educate yourself about the candidates
3. Don't read the "polls"
4. Study the issues -- which you will be able to do now that the TV is dead
5. Bone up on the candidates' records

Things will go just fine.

[Liberalynn]

4. They really need to follow this advice

I'd add read your history books and quit electing regressive idiots who push ideas that have already been tried and failed miserably over and over again.

Sadly as long as the "only thing we learn from history, is we don't learn from history" (F.Hegel) holds true, we are doomed to continued failure and insanity.

[Blue Owl]

3. K&R

Hilarious!

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