Year of the Undecided

If there's comfort in numbers, I can take some solace in this AP-Yahoo poll, which shows that I'm not alone in my indecision about 2008 presidential candidates. The poll finds that in the last month alone, four in 10 GOP voters switched candidates -- and nearly two-thirds say they might change their minds again. Not only that, one-fifth of voters who said they wouldn't change their minds, did.

I can relate. I began this election cycle feeling sympathetic toward Brownback, but quickly moved on when it became obvious his campaign would go nowhere. I then briefly resigned myself to Romney as the only candidate who could beat Giuliani, then got enthused about Huckabee, who, much to my surprise, soon began to soar. But Huckabee's appeal wore off quickly for me, and now I find myself leaning toward McCain. Although, truth be told, if Rudy is still leading in the California polls by the time we have our primary, I might just pull the lever for whichever candidate -- McCain, Huckabee, or Romney -- has the best chance of upsetting him.

So count me among the flip-floppers, past and present.

But my favorite part of the AP story about the poll is this tidbit:

Anne Marie Pontarelli ... shifted from the GOP to Clinton because she liked her equivocal initial response to the controversy over states' granting drivers licenses to illegal aliens.

"There are many shades of gray" on issues, said Pontarelli, 30, a consultant from Downers Grove, Ill. "The way she responded took a lot of guts."

Funny, I would have thought double-talking and refusing to answer a question directly showed the exact opposite of "guts." Go figure.

And who knew that, for at least one voter, Hillary Clinton's duplicity is actually a plus? Democracy is ... strange.