By Jill Black
After a nail-biting, emotionally-draining year of watching what some people call the most gripping election campaign of modern times, the election now comes down to the opinion of the much-touted undecided voter. Who is this stubbornly indecisive population and why are they taking so long to make up their minds?
Untold millions have been spent by the candidates in trying to woo this elusive electoral subset, who now stand poised as the true deciders in this election year’s final hours. Pundits have talked themselves hoarse attempting to characterize their bias and pin down their final leanings. Whose attention wasn’t riveted by the little squiggly lines on the screen during the CNN televised version of the debate, the output of 30 undecided voters and their handheld response-dialers? And yet, despite the fact that they clearly were pleased or displeased with the two candidates’ performance, at the end of the evening many of them remained steadfastly undecided. Who wouldn’t hold out on making a decision if but to bask for a bit longer in the steady outpouring of national, even international, attention?
Even now, on the very eve of the election, some 6.4 percent of voters still cannot make up their mind for whom they will be casting their vote. Even after the many dozens of debates, the two conventions, the endless interviews, television appearances, newspapers articles, radio spots, the differences between the two candidates laid out in such sharp relief, these voters still haven’t figured it out. At this late stage of the game, you have to be trying pretty hard to avoid paying attention to the campaign, suggesting that maybe these undecideds never intended to vote in the first place.
And Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center has discovered just that–the undecided voters are in large part people who will not be voting on Tuesday. Kohut says that undecided voters typically fall into three general categories: those who are torn between the candidates, those who disengaged and not following the campaign, and those who are nonvoters.
Kohut’s research finds that a majority of the voters are women, at 63 percent. Many are less educated and more religious than their more decisive counterparts, and they also tend to make less money, so maybe don’t have as much time to be obsessing over politics. Of those who will cast a ballot, Kohut finds that they will be divided fairly evenly, with a slightly higher tendency to vote for McCain than voters who have already made up their minds.
Some polls show that in the swing states, such as Florida and Missouri, the number of undecided voters is larger than the lead of either candidate. So it seems that by playing coy, we will all be waiting breathlessly to see just how Josephine the voter decides to vote, if she votes at all. And perhaps we all should thank her for keeping us all so busy these last months. Without the undecided voters, the candidates wouldn’t have had anyone to spend their ad dollars on, Gallup wouldn’t have had anyone to write their debate questions for the last debate, and we wouldn’t have had any reason to keep watching this campaign so intently to its very end. So thank you for adding some suspense to what would otherwise have been a foregone conclusion to this election year!
Jill works for Inside Houston real estate. Their site has information on different suburbs of Houston like Clear Lake real estate and Woodlands real estate. They also provide general information on the Houston real estate market.
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By John Craig
Global STM publishing industry grews 4.4% to $14.7 billion in 2007 (Source: Simba). There are hundreds and thousands of publishers who compete for a share of this market pie.
As a stakeholder, you definitely need to keep tabs on the industry developments that can affect your day to day operations, and the way you conduct your business. Knowledgespeak is a free STM news service for professionals who need to understand and respond to the continuous challenges of the scientific technical and medical (STM) publishing industry.
Knowledgespeak is the worlds first online news service to report on all the relevant developments within the scientific technical and medical information industry, on a daily basis. Launched in June 2005, this STM news service has become the benchmark for online scientific technical and medical news (STM) and is widely subscribed by people who matter in the STM publishing industry across nations. Apart from daily news alerts, Knowledgespeak also offers additional features including a calendar of scientific technical and medical events, a comprehensive directory of scientific technical and medical publishers, a blog area and a resource section featuring interesting articles, whitepapers and presentations relevant to the STM publishing industry.
This online news service seeks to provide readers with the latest update on the Scientific Technical and Medical publishing industry. Information posted in this site can benefit players in STM business. This online Scientific Technical Medical News service serves as a communication vehicle to reach customers and/or other key stakeholders of the industry. With online STM news, subscribers can stay informed by getting daily online STM news alerts,scientific technical and medical industry events, new STM related products and STM services, and more. Also, STM publishers can promote their products/ services by sending in press releases and through online advertising. In addition, they also track peer activity as well as easily locate relevant database providers, events, interesting articles and white papers. Subscribers can also discuss and participate in STM blogs.
The STM news service is powered by a professional STM team comprising web-aggregators who handpick the articles, experts who prioritize what goes into the day’s alert and experienced editors who prepare concise abstracts that summarize all those critical points that you would need to know as an STM professional
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How to select your news sharing site?
All of us need to be aware of what is happening around us because information is power. Most of us are so busy and we dont find time for anything else except our work. We go to bed working and wakeup to get back to work and we dont even have time for ourselves. In this rush we can easily get out of touch with this world. To avoid this from happening we need to keep ourselves abreast with the latest happenings of our society. It is also important that we know what is happening in the other parts of the world as well. Some of the regular sources that we can use to get our latest news include newspapers, TV, radio, magazines and lately the internet also has become one of the major sources of information where we can get all the latest news stories. More and more people prefer to use the internet and the worldwide web to get their news because it has many advantages.
One of the major advantages is that we can search for any information and in a matter of seconds we can have access to loads and loads of information on any given area. It is not time specific unlike TV and radio. We can have access to the required information any time of the day or night. There are number of news sharing sites online that publish variety of news stories. We can choose one such website from where we can regularly get all the latest news so that we dont have to waste time everyday searching for a new site. Since we are spending our precious time on going through the news sites, the information presented should be newsworthy.
Here are some tips that will help you choose the right news sharing site:
First of all, the news sharing site that you identify should be a reliable site and it should not just generate news stories that are not true just to attract visitors. Secondly, this news site should update itself regularly so that you get to read the latest news stories. Thirdly, it should publish latest news stories belonging to all possible categories from politics, fashion, lifestyle, sports to celebrity news. All the content presented should be of high standard that will make the reading interesting and easy to understand. It should not charge you any fee for using their services. The news stories should not be limited to local news; it should also publish world news.
If you can find a news sharing site with all the above qualities you must immediately make this as your homepage and also add it to your list of favorites. Javno.com/en is one of the top-class news sharing websites that provides its users with all the latest news including world news. This website is updated several times every day with the latest news items. It also has Video clippings and high quality images pertaining to the news items published making all the news stories interesting.
Tomislav is author of this article on Internet journalism.
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