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To no avail.
With only a few days before the dreaded choice confronts him on Election Day, Ginsberg is considering these solutions:
* Taking his eight-year-old daughter, Maddie, into the voting booth with him and letting her pick.
* Hiding two pieces of matzo instead of one during the Passover seder ritual in which children find it and get a reward. Each piece would represent a candidate, and he'd vote for the one that was found first.
* Setting out two portions of food for his two cats, labeling the portions "Clinton" and "Obama," and voting for whichever food gets eaten first.
This, from a manager with an executive-search firm whose job it is to pick candidates for corporate leadership.
It's that bad.
"I know it's never going to come down to one of them won or lost by one vote and it was Mike's fault," he said.
Still, "It's killing me."
Committed voters on either side clearly can't fathom this crippling uncertainty. They're convinced their candidate is the only valid choice, and supporters of their opponent are deeply misguided.
But many others are still vacillating from one to the other in a vicious circle that seems irresolvable. Some polls last week showed more than one voter in 10 is still undecided.
God knows it isn't for want of information.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have exhaustively explained their similar positions on issues.
They've been in so many debates that the only revelation now is how snarky and inane the questions can be, which was pitifully evident this week.
They've both pandered, pledged and promised; they've both said things that they had to take back.
Still, for some people, Clinton's strengths are Obama's weaknesses and vice versa, and they cancel each other out.
In our editorial board meetings, for instance, Clinton was impressively prepared and specific, if guarded and defensive. Obama was charming and persuasive, if vague and long-winded.
As Ginsberg put it:
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