Time to stop some people's suffring?

Now can somebody commission a similar poll for McCain voters?

Update 1: Zogby, which carried out the poll will not duplicate a similar poll for McCain.

Update 2: John Ziegler, who commissioned the poll has an entertaining interview with Nate Silver.



Update 3: The video asked the question:

Which Candidate Won Their First Election By Getting All Of Their Opponents Kicked Off The Ballot?

I had initially thought this was regarding the 2004 election to the US Senate from Illinois where his initial Republican opponent had to withdraw his name due to a sex scandal and was replaced by Alan Keyes but it refers to the 1996 election for the Illinois State Senate seat from the 13th District. Obama got the four other candidates off the ballot by challenging the validity of the signatures on their nominating petitions.

Why vote?

Gordon Tullock on why voting is irrational



Also watch this.

Yatha praja tatha raja

Mencken on voting in the Baltimore Sun of July 16, 1920

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental—men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre—the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Hat Tip: Cafe Hayek