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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: ‘This is not the time for a protest vote’ [View all]otohara
(24,135 posts)I would not want to be known as the generation who ushered in President Trump.
An awful lot of young voters, and Sanders supporters, so far seem unwilling to bite the bullet and vote for Clinton. They may learn the hard way how much worse things can get.
Donald Trump might as well have been invented in a laboratory by liberals to be the most repulsive, ogreish, unpopular presidential candidate in the history of our republic.
So how the hell is Hillary Clinton barely beating him?
Certainly, a great deal of the blame for our terrifying circumstances lies with Clinton herself. She is an abominable candidate, a wooden speaker, a cynical triangulator, andto put it kindlyethically challenged.
But she also has something very important in her favor.
Shes running against Donald Trump.
Im not going to rehearse the case against the Republican nominee in this space because Ive done it so many times before. Needless to say, Trump is the most manifestly unfit presidential candidate ever to win the nomination of a major American political party. He is a racist. A proto-authoritarian. A menace to the free world.
Yet despite running against a candidate who combines the racial divisiveness of George Wallace with the pro-Russian sympathies of Henry Wallace, Hillary Clinton has barely been able to break 48 percent in any national poll. She does significantly better in head-to-head match-ups than in the actual four-way race, thanks to the not insignificant number of voters expressing support for Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party standard-bearer Jill Stein. Support for these minor candidates is most pronounced among a crucial demographic, my demographic: millennials. Twenty-six percent of voters aged 18-29 say they will vote for Johnson; 10 percent back Stein.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/16/if-america-elects-a-president-donald-j-trump-blame-millennials.html
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