Low-Information Voters
So my liberal Democrat mother-in-law gets to the polling place planning to vote for Hillary Clinton, and discovers that, unbeknownst to her, she has been a registered Republican for the last 40 years. New York being a closed primary state, she dutifully goes into a Republican booth. All she knows is that she can’t stand John McCain. So she votes for . . . Mike Huckabee, with whom she disagrees about pretty much absolutely everything.
Puts those mysterious Florida Buchanan voters from 2000 into perspective.
Sorry, Florida voters are still the dumbest in the United States. Our local Supervisor of Elections received a flood of calls yesterday from people wondering where to vote. The Supervisor of Elections had to inform each caller that our primary was back in January, and that it was a good thing they didn’t get a chance to vote.
— Dave · Feb 6, 03:20 PM · #
Dave,
Many of the callers probably did vote in January, they just didn’t recall that they had (or who they voted for, for that matter). Frankly, I’m surprised most Floridians don’t think “Super Tuesday” is some sort of early bird promotion over at Denny’s…
— Jeremiah · Feb 7, 04:12 AM · #