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Barack Obama and John McCain have stood (or sat) towards 36 debates, endured thousands of interviews and spent hundreds of millions of dollars and the better part of two years trying to satisfy voters they are worthy of the presidency, or at minutest a vote.

But with only two days left until Election Day, a small cluster of holdouts — 4 to 6 percent, according to most polls — still is wrestling through the “Who are you voting beneficial to?” question.

Which raises a follow-up: What’s up with these people? They are, after all, faced with couple different men, from different generations, through variant ideas, revealed and vetted in the longest campaign cycle ever.

“I do not like being an ‘undecided,’ ” said Doug Finke, 66, an executory at an international relocation service in Louisville, Ky. “Last time at this point, I definitely was decided. Not this time. I obtain it unnerving.”

Finke, a Republican, voted twice for George W. Bush. Finke describes himself of the same kind with one economic conservative and said he had been “to a high degree impressed” with McCain. It doubtless sounds in the same proportion that if Finke is leaning toward the Arizona Republican, right?

Not so fast.

“I’m socially more liberal,” Finke said. “I think Obama is bright and has been very steady in this campaign.” He added that it would be “very exciting for the United States to elect a black president.” Besides, he does not conceive McCain’sitting running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, would be easy to step into the top job if something happened to McCain (who, Finke distinguished, “is pretty old”).

Where does this departure Finke? “I plan on doing a lot of reading this weekend,” he said.

There is little inquiry put on undecided voters because they are any ever-changing population; those who evade the truth in one election cycle might not in another. A study of presidential elections at the State University of New York, Buffalo, found that the last time wafflers made a difference was 1960.

But they may be significant this year. A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll last week showed that this wavering pennon of the electorate — 6 percent in Florida, 8 percent in Ohio — was large sufficiency to make the difference in those states.

He likes McCain, but …

Presidential elections don’t always rise to the bring to the same level of monumental decisions, but with two wars, a crippled economy and an energy crisis, this human being does, and the undecided put in mind swings on the frontier and forth, amassing evidence, unwilling — incapable? — to rush it.