TRUMP CLINTON

Notes of Concern…

   …Jack Blair

ON TO THE RACES

I promised in an earlier column not to write about politics until I watched both conventions. So this will be my assessment today.

In few presidential election years have I seen such horrible statements, speeches and columns. Supporters of Sanders, Clinton and Trump are hot and angry and determined.

It has turned out that it will be Clinton vs Trump with Sanders endorsing Clinton, much to the anger of some of his supporters. I watch the polls on Real Politics and I find they are usually reliable. They show today a very close race.

That being said, I think the polls will be useless in this election. Probably a majority of people do not like either candidate. But they are smart enough to realize that voting for a third party candidate or not voting at all simply helps the candidate you like least. Our duty is to choose the best of the two major party candidates.

The reason I think polling will be misleading is that I know so many people who say they will vote for Trump but will not say so publicly. So when they go behind that curtain and cast their vote it is my view that a significant number of those who say they are uncommitted or will vote for Clinton will actually vote for Trump.

As I have said in previous columns it is not an endorsement of Trump. Anyone who took Trump’s position that our nation has been led for many years by the wrong kind of people, would have been popular. The majority of people do not think the nation is headed in the right direction.

This is a positive for Trump and spells trouble for Clinton.

Clinton may yet win not because people think she is appropriate but because trump is a roll of the dice. We know what we get with Clinton. We have watched her for decades, since she was the wife of the Governor of Arkansas. We do not know what we will get with Trump. I do not side with those who think he would be a disaster as I have know idea how his business successes and his ability to see the major issue before Americans today, unhappiness with business as usual, will affect the way he would lead the Republic.