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You've said that a couple of times now, but I can't find in either of your responses the issues you think your wife would respond to.


My experience has been that some republicans claim they are independent or undecided, for whatever reasons (I don't know if they feel it gives them some semblence of rationality or discernment--but that's my suspicion), yet consistently vote Republican.

I usually ask these people when the last time they voted for anything other than a Republican candidate in an election other than their local community elections (i.e., mayor, council person, etc). It's not a very surprising answer to me that they may have done so about 30 years ago.


When has your wife voted for a democratic or third party president? I'd be curious to know whether she fits the pattern of other similarly situated republicans.

I suspect that if they were as undecided as they claim or wish they were, that they might actually vote for another candidate--not necessarily a democrat. So what they really seem to be saying is that they wish to be open minded and if a bombshell of a reason goes off in their heads, they would jump party in the ballot box.

But what they don't seem to consider is that, given their political predispositions, any bombshell that would otherwise go off in their minds will be filered through their political ideology and diffused before it presents an issue with the party they are voting for.

That's my armchair psychoanalysis of the 'undecided' republican.

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