With the amount of signal-to-noise concerning campaigns' efforts to sway undecided voters, should it be best if they were ignored entirely?
Should it matter that the outcomes of elections fall on the shoulders of, at most, 15 percent of voters, whose determination of how they break one way or the other the equivalent of a metaphorical coin flip?
"Democracy Nerd" host Jefferson Smith speaks with Oscar Pocasangre, Senior Data Analyst for New America, about why from a democracy perspective we should care about the outsized influence of undecided voters---and also discuss potential electoral alternatives to mitigate the randomness of undecided voters' determining election outcomes.
#elections #democracy #politicalscience #undecidedvoters #electoralreforms
Watch the whole interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICHWqgyOlhs
Read the report "Undecided Voters: Who They Are, What They Want, and How They Decide Our Politics"
https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/undecided-voters-who-they-are-what-they-want-and-how-they-decide-our-politics/
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