The Undecided Undecided about being Undecided Throughout the 1995 mayoral campaign, polls conducted for newspapers and various candidates show a high proportion of undecided voters - between 18 and 25 percent. In other words, between one out of five and one out of four voters have no idea who the hell they are going to vote for on November 7th.
Many people assume that the same voters remain undecided.
In other words, those people who were undecided on who to vote for in July remain so now. Polls are essentially a snapshot of the electorate, a moment captured. In a race with such high percentages of undecided voters, the snapshot can only measure how many voters are undecided. The pool of undecided voters has it's own internal dynamics. But the Undecided don't stay that way forever.