It’s getting frantic, isn’t it? Polls are announced! amount of money raised is announced! interviews with “swing” voters are published! And we thrill or suffer accordingly.<\/p>\n
As a Times reader I learned what a bunch of “swing” voters in Georgia think about the election. Gee, well, you know that hilarious TV ad for some insurance company? It is a dark and stormy night and a group of young people outside a scary house are tremulously debating what they should do next and a young woman quavers, “Why don’t we just get in the running car?” And is rebuked. “Are you crazy?!?!?”<\/p>\n
So one of the guys says they should hide behind a wall festooned with deadly tools. “Good idea!” and they scramble behind the tools.<\/p>\n
Then comes the shot of the mad killer — a big guy holding a chain saw, I think, with a fright mask pushed up onto his head, and he’s watching the kids hide and with a deadpan expression, shakes his head slowly at their stupidity.<\/p>\n
I always laugh at that, because the actor’s face is so funny.<\/p>\n
That was my face, when I read that Times “forum” of Georgia voters, whose ideas about the election are so…I sat here at my computer, shaking my head. No mask, no chain saw, just dull dismay.<\/p>\n
The Facts About Voting Voters do not vote based on the opinions of ten people in Georgia.<\/p>\n Polls don’t vote.<\/p>\n Billions of dollars don’t vote.<\/p>\n People vote. Millions of them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s getting frantic, isn’t it? Polls are announced! amount of money raised is announced! interviews with “swing” voters are published! And we thrill or suffer accordingly. As a Times reader I learned what a bunch of “swing” voters in Georgia … Continue reading
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