In search of the legendary Undecideds

posted by Matthew Belinkie on Saturday, September 13th, 2008 at 5:59pm

If political news was drugs, I’d probably be in Betty Ford right now. Or dead of a massive overdose.

I read way way too many blogs, both for the articles that buttress up my own opinions, and the ones that I violent disagree with. When things are going well for my guy, I want to bask in the elation. When things are going poorly, I spend even more time online, looking for people who will tell me, “There there, it’ll be alright. Shh.”

But the election won’t be decided by people like me, because people like me already know who we’re voting for. We’re not in play. It’ll be decided by the people that don’t have a side yet. And that’s what I can’t quite get: after two freakin’ years of non-stop politics, how can you still be Undecided?

Sean Tevis, who is running for State Rep in Kansas, had a brilliant idea to raise campaign funds: become viral on the Internet by doing an xkcd parody.

And it’s funnier than xkcd has been recently, which is an added bonus.

Let’s keep Sean Tevis’ comic popular so more politicians use webcomic parodies as advertising campaigns.  Think of the possibilities:

Can we help tiny elephants in bowler hats? Yes, we can!

Verbs: absent.

posted by Matthew Belinkie on Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 10:46am