4%....This year, about 50% of the voting age population will vote in the presidential election.
However, only 30% of the population lives in contested states.
And according to the latest New York Times poll, only 25% of the people they surveyed are still undecided about who they're going to vote for.
Do the arithmetic and that adds up to 4% of the electorate. Everything you see for the next six months from George Bush and John Kerry every ad, every dollar, every speech, every prerecorded telephone call is aimed at trying to convert about 4% of the total voting age population. The other 96% of us are basically spectators either we're not going to vote, we live in states that are foregone conclusions, or we've already made up our minds.
Do you know anyone who's part of the 4%? If you do, get to work on them.
—Kevin Drum 12:46 AM
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