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Many of the more impartial polling firms, such as Luis Christiansen’s Consultores 21, Varianzas, and Keller, all show a surprisingly large proportion of undecided voters – those who do not answer or do not know for whom they will vote.
In highly polarized and politicized Venezuela, it is unlikely that upward of 20% of voters have yet to decide what they will do.
But American voters aren’t cooperating.
Voters want less spending, not higher taxes.
Voters have a way of holding elected officials accountable for their pronouncements.
Fortunately, it appears that voters in the US are far ahead of the politicians.
But Barack Obama’s re-election demonstrated the electoral power of Latino voters, who rejected Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney by a 3-1 majority, as did Asian-Americans.
Faulty Political NarrativesLIMA – Across Latin America, voters who, until recently, were enthusiastic about their leftist governments seem to be having a change of heart.
In Brazil and Venezuela, voters want to oust their leaders.
In Bolivia, voters rejected President Evo Morales’s effort to amend the constitution so that he could seek another presidential term.
But if voters are now jettisoning the left and its supposedly “pro-people” policies, it is not because they now prefer the “class enemy.”
Now, in the midst of inflationary stagnation, voters may be questioning that alternative.
Governments will become more effective in the future only if voters learn to become more demanding of the policies that future governments adopt.
And yet none of Latin America’s political narratives teaches voters anything new or useful.
And voters ended up re-electing presidents like Carlos Menem of Argentina, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, and Alberto Fujimori of Peru precisely because they were able to overcome the debt crisis, balance the budget, and bring down inflation.
But the windfall was mismanaged, fueling fiscal profligacy, and the end of the boom left economies in recession and voters with broken dreams.
Voters enthusiastically supported extravagant spending during a boom.
Until voters learn what to ask for from their governments, they are bound to dislike what they end up getting.
Thus, a prime minister who gained massive support from voters only two and a half years ago, won mid-term elections, survived two confidence votes in Parliament, and still enjoys high approval ratings is constantly under pressure.
Otherwise, German voters would be rendered powerless, constituting a breach of the German constitution.
But it is also the EU’s growing complexity that is at the root of voters’ waning enthusiasm, so their indifference is a matter for serious concern.
But, even when the parliament does make an effort to connect with voters, the ponderous bureaucratic culture of its permanent officials tends to spoil things.
Only voters can do that.
And no wonder that voters in almost two-thirds of eurozone countries have turned out the incumbents in their most recent elections.
According to public-opinion polls, only about 17% of eligible voters have not yet made up their minds about which candidate to support.
A certain percentage of American voters will not vote for a black man, whatever he says, or however good he looks in a debate.
If policies or prejudices have not persuaded that undecided 17% of voters, they must be looking for something else.
So voters could not always be blamed for finding it hard to make up their minds.
It is not utterly absurd, therefore, that voters want to like the look of their presidents, quite apart from the merit of their policies.
And the man whom US voters choose to lead their country will affect the lives of everyone, not just Americans.
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