“Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A41WZBcmnfc

I think that many among those who say they are undecided are not really that undecided and without intentions. They are lying.

Again it is part of the Sicilian doppio gioco game and they make you think they have no intentions when in actual fact they have already decided. Read the Gattopardo. Sicilian.

Perhaps its hypocrisy. Whatever it is, I’m describing a sociological pattern and not saying whether it is correct or not to do it.

A floating voter is commonly understood to be a person who does not consider himself or herself to be bound to vote consistently for any one party in consecutive elections.

I consider myself to be a floating voter because I would vote any party if I thought it had the best vision for the future. That does not mean that I am undecided as to whom I should vote in the coming election, though. I am quite certain that PN is the best choice right now.

In most of the rest of Europe where the political scene is not as polarised as that in Malta (or indeed the US), one tends to be a “floating voter” by default and so the term is pretty useless. In political environments like ours, the US’ and the UK’s, where there are two major opposing parties, it is natural that most of the resources during an electoral campaign are aimed at convincing the “floating voters”, since it is the floating voters who will ultimately decide the outcome.

Again, the “undecided” category in the polls is distinct from the percentage of “floating voters”. At any one time there have to be more floating voters than undecideds. If nothing else because as the electoral campaign rolls on, more and more undecideds finally start taking a stand. Their taking a stand in this particular election however, does not make them “non-floaters” because they could easily take a different decision come next election.

Conversely a “non-floater” can never be undecided because for any number of reasons he would never consider voting for some other party.

In this instance though, he’s dead wrong. He is equating the undecided voters to the floating voters.

This is a logical fallacy because undecideds are, by definition floating voters, but not all floating voters are necessarily undecided.

[Daphne – By definition, floating voters are undecided. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be floating. The term ‘floating voter’ isn’t really used anywhere much outside Malta. Everywhere else, people talk in terms of undecided and that’s the category in the polls, too.]

Actually there are some voters, well at least one, that want to kick the PN up the arse, get LG out and SB in ASAP.

What about 5 years of the ginger magician fucking it up?

That’ll do nicely.

He’s not a comedian. Johnny il-Cowboy is a comedian.

Bill Maher is one of the most important man in US politics.

I was always of the opinion that floating voters are a know-nothing bunch, just frustrated Laburisti in reality, without one iota of principle.

I hate the fact that some newspapers, like The Times, try to exalt, or even lick, these voters as if they were the ones who would decide our fate.

Floating voters are opinion-less people. They are not open-minded people but rather very narrow-minded and have no idea of the consequences that the wrong choice might imply.

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