Undecided Voters

     Benjamin Disraeli said that "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics". The Republican Party and its candidates have been flooding us with the first two degrees of lying for a long time, and I do not blame them. When you do not have any positive ideas to offer to the electorate, you bring out the old smear tactics that worked in the past.


     However, I do have a problem understanding the statistics that are presented to us daily, and in particular the large number of "undecided' voters that supposedly haven't made up their minds after almost two years of non-stop campaigning.


     Could they be recent visitors from another planet, or simply uncaring or uninformed citizens that shut themselves off from the world around them. There is, of course, another explanation: their minds are made up but they are ashamed to reveal their choice.


     If there are still some voters with an open mind that have daughters or granddaughters that they care about, please consider their future.


     Our next President will, most likely, have to fill at least two vacancies on the Supreme Court, and that may put Roe v Wade in jeopardy. The Republican candidate for President, John McCain, voted consistently against women rights during his quarter century in Washington, and his choice of the person to succeed him in office does not inspire confidence in his future choices of Supreme Court justices, if it comes to that.


     And there is a possible worse scenario if McCain is elected President and then succeeded by his VP. While McCain voted to prohibit abortions, his running mate would like to expand to ban to include women that are victims of rape or incest.

     So when you cast your ballot remember that he future of your children is in your hands.