July 04, 2003
Polls
I should learn more about polling organizations. For political polls, one of the things that seems wrong is that they can't really make a distinction between the likely voters and the people that can't even bring themselves to vote in an election. Over half of the eligible voters in the nation don't vote, they are just okay with anything and will probably choose the choice that has the least conflict and confrontation.I imagine a counterpoint about our voter participation. Another way of looking at it is that the nonvoters are just content to let the other half of the population represent them. They are volunteering for one more layer of representation in our large representative democracy. After all, we're huge and our politics are a lot more complicated than that of other countries. It may be that we require another layer of representation.
Anyway, just musing... this particular blog entry doesn't exactly have a thesis.