Reply #10: The theory that there are lots of people who vote in either party [View All]

[Bluenorthwest]

depending on the candidate is not proven, and in fact I have met precious few who vote like that. I mean, can you seriously tell me that lots of people were actually torn between Obama and McPalin? Tossing a coin over Bush v Gore? Who and where are those people?
If such people existed in numbers, they would in fact make themselves known, the nature of politics is to make power blocks. And yet this theory is all about how a smaller group controls all elections, and yet never puts that power to any form of use? You understand that such a group would be the first group of humans in history to hold such sway and yet not organize, not make use of that power to influence the candidates directly for their own benefit.
The 'independents' by and large vote for one of the two Parties, they just do not like to join or identify. I have known a few people who were extremely proud of being 'independent' voters, but none of them really switched from Party to Party, and none of them ever looked at other Parties, nor at organizing others who were like them into any fundraising or deal making.
The bulk of voters who 'could go either way' are not independent, they are idiots who do not know the names on the ballot, can not remember which Party Bush was in, and 'decide' their vote by emotion or name recognition. This is not being independent, it is being uninformed.