KCCCC E-Day: What a voter thinks
- What do voters think? I think polls and focus groups are interesting, but I generally prefer my political gut over my political head. I regard my six-pack-like gut on days like today, and say: “What are voters thinking, gut?”
- My gut grumbled. “They’re pretty busy, so they don’t have much time to think about politics as much as idiots like you do,” said my gut. “So their analysis tends to be pretty to-the-point. Here’s what a lot of them think.”
- Number one: “They’re pissed off there was another election. It made them grumpy,” said gut. “They’re taking it out on two guys, mostly, which is Iggy and Steve. Some of them think Iggy was taking a risk to push for an election, too, when he’d been behind the Cons for a couple years.”
- Number two:“They like Jack, but they don’t like the other two so much,” my gut remarked. “They saw Iggy and Steve as similar: kind of aloof and stand-offish, and more right wing than them. Steve and Iggy saw it as a zero-sum game, whatever that is. They tried to shake loose votes from each other. But those votes that shook loose, alright, and they bounced right over to Jack. People like Jack.”
- Number three:“The country is still pretty progressive,” gut observed. “Sixty-five per cent of them hate, er, Steve’s guts, too. Iggy should have been more progressive, they felt. So they went to the only guy they thought was more progressive, which was Jack.”
- Number four: “Attack ads work,” said gut. “But they work best in a two-way race. In a three-way race, they don’t work so well, do they?”
- Number five: “Folks are in a firing mood,” concluded my gut. “Today, they want to fire a few politicians. Tonight, they’re going to get their wish.”