… Many of the poll-blamers ignore the fact that undecided voters are, well, undecided. As this column has noted before, pollsters are not mind-readers and polls are not crystal balls that can see the future. If someone is asked who they plan to support and they say they haven’t decided, that means that they haven’t decided.
For virtually the entire campaign, most Americans believed that in the end, Trump would win reelection, even many who planned to vote against him. After all, incumbent presidents usually do win. As it became increasingly clear that Biden was actually the favorite, did that narrow slice of undecided voters, most of whom are independents, who by definition are skeptical about both political parties, get skittish about giving Democrats control of everything? After all, it sure sounded like things were headed that way. Did these undecided voters decide that if the country was going to give Biden the keys to the car, they didn’t really want to give the full tank of gas and a credit card to his party? CONTINUED
Charlie Cook, National Journal