Call-In for Undecided Voters
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lerer on WNYC, we're going to spend the last 10 or 15 minutes of the show today |
| 0:08.2 | inviting you to express your ambivalence about any election this election season. |
| 0:14.2 | This is a call-in for undecided voters in any race or on any ballot question. |
| 0:20.8 | Call up and say why you can't decide yet who to vote for |
| 0:24.5 | or even whether to vote in any race or on any ballot question. 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9-3-9-6-9-92 call or text. |
| 0:37.8 | We know a lot of people are decided. |
| 0:39.3 | We're seeing the early voting numbers really pop, at least in New York City. |
| 0:44.3 | And yet, the polls show that about 5 to 10 percent in both the New York mayoral race and the New Jersey governor's race are undecided, |
| 0:56.3 | or at least were, going into this early voting week. |
| 0:58.9 | And that's not much, but it still could be the key to the outcome of either race. |
| 1:04.2 | So if you are undecided for mayor of New York, for governor of New Jersey, or for any other race, Nassau County Executive, |
| 1:12.5 | Nassau County, DA, Jersey City mayor, should Jim McGreevy be allowed that comeback and become |
| 1:18.4 | mayor of Jersey City or on any of the ballot questions, why haven't you been able to decide yet? |
| 1:23.8 | 212-433 WNYC, and we want to acknowledge that swing voters come in two varieties, not just one, those who are torn |
| 1:33.8 | between two candidates or yes or no on a ballot issue, and those who are torn between one |
| 1:40.2 | candidate and not voting at all. |
| 1:43.3 | I personally know several people who've always voted in the |
| 1:46.6 | past who are considering not voting for mayor because they don't trust any of the candidates |
| 1:52.3 | for one reason or another. I've heard stories of other such people from friends for whom it's |
| 1:57.9 | very unusual in each of these cases. These are chronic voters who at this moment |
| 2:04.3 | are on the fence between one candidate or not voting at all. And I definitely respect that there |
| 2:11.5 | is such a thing as a principled abstention to make a statement that politics, as it exists, produced only bad choices, |
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