How can you be undecided?

I'm borrowing this from the Washington Post this morning, but it makes a point that I have been wondering about for a long time, i.e., how can any serious voter be undecided this year? Either you really believe in Bush, or you will go for Kerry or even Nader. How, after all that has transpired, can you not have an opinion of Bush?

Well, maybe they do, but just are not yet ready to cross over to a Democrat. Read on, and they are encouraging words.

"Last week Charlie Cook, a highly-respected non-partisan political analyst, wrote in his column for the National Journal that things are looking bad for President Bush.

"Cook's chief point is that while Kerry holds just a slim lead in some polls, there are very few undecided voters out there and that Bush realistically can expect to get no more than 25 percent of them.

"Which would mean a Kerry victory in November. Cook is not foolish enough to predict this and, of course, he includes the usual language about how things can change. But here are his concluding thoughts:

" ' . . . President Bush must have a change in the dynamics and the fundamentals of this race if he is to win a second term. The sluggishly recovering economy and renewed violence in Iraq don't seem likely to positively affect this race, but something needs to happen. It is extremely unlikely that President Bush will get much more than one-fourth of the undecided vote, and if that is the case, he will need to be walking into Election Day with a clear lead of perhaps three percentage points.' "