The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel highlights two “informed but undecided voters” and their quest for…what, exactly?

They watched the presidential debates, know where the candidates stand on a number of issues and have done plenty of thinking about the two men vying for the White House.

But Keith and Jana Wells of Wauwatosa have yet to decide whether they will vote for Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain on election day.

“I’ll probably make a decision tomorrow,” said Keith, while watching over his 1-year-old daughter Sunday afternoon.

Jana laughed, then said she will make her choice “probably the day of.”

If you’re informed about the two candidates, you know they stand for two completely different sets of principles. If you’re still undecided now, you have no political principles.

I can tell you right now that these are probably two Obama votes. “Moderates” tend to be liberals in disguise.

There’s a lot of people who claim to “vote for the man,” as if they can get a good read on a person’s character by watching them make speeches and debate. Apparently this is a horrible way to gauge a person’s character, because there are still people out there willing to vote for Obama. Obama, if you’ll recall, supported allowing fetuses that survived abortion to die and went to a church with a racist pastor for 20 years.

When you say something like this,

“I want to get more of a feel for the candidates,” he said.

you just sound stupid.

Want more evidence these people either 1. have no voting principles or 2. ignore them? Observe.

Both [different people now] said they think Obama has a better message on the economy. But Jana, who said she opposes abortion, worries that Obama does not share her views on the issue.

“I watch him speak and think, ‘Yes, he’ll be a good leader,’ but then I have that in the back of my head,” she said.

Lately, she’s been thinking she probably will vote for Obama anyway, mostly because of the negative campaign material she has received in the mail from McCain supporters.

You oppose abortion, but the negative campaign material you received in the mail from John McCain is what’s going to throw your vote?

What?

This is why I said if you’re stupid, don’t vote. I’m not referring to formal education – I mean, anyone who considers that an honest barometer of intelligence is either a teacher or a retired teacher.

I meant voters who oppose abortion but won’t vote against Obama because McCain’s mail rubbed them the wrong way. You may be “informed,” but you can still be stupid.

My gut tells me it’s going to be a closer election than many of the polls suggest, and that McCain has a chance if he gets the right turnouts (mostly old people) in the right states.