I'm not sure, but your opposition seems to be softer than it was in the past. i admit, I don't keep a log on these things.
This election kind of reminds of the Nixon/Humphrey race.
The polls were closing as the election approached, but not quickly enough for Humphrey to have won.
Can Trump win that race with the calendar the clock? I think we'll know more after Monday night.
Sorry, I fired-off a quick reply earlier, but misunderstood & glossed over your first line.
Actually code1211, I was initially an anti-establishment Bernie supporter this time around - but subsequently took a look at Trump when it became apparent Bernie would not prevail in the Dem primary. I dislike HRC, though I have a bit of a fond spot for Bubba - and see him getting back in the WH as one of the few redeeming features of an HRC presidency.
Being anti-establishment and a strong opponent of illegal immigration/strong proponent of secure borders, I wanted to support Trump. Initially, I was moderately warm with him but bothered by the way he characterized Mexicans (
rapists, murderers, I suppose *some* are good), and by his John McCain comments (
I like soldiers that don't get caught!). My father and uncle served in Korea, I knew a lot of guys that served in 'Nam, and my wife's friends have kids that served in Afghanistan; so the McCain comment struck me as particularly hard and unpatriotic, and I thought that there might sink him. I also didn't like some of the racist & bigoted elements I was seeing in his growing ranks of supporters.
But I still kinda' hung around wanting to support him, until finally the Mexican judge and Khan Family disputes arose along with what I perceived as an even further attracting of nasty elements at his speeches. So I threw in the towel on him. I also couldn't take his talking total B.S., often in circles or contradicting himself, senseless lacking in detail platform positions , impossible to attain promises, his moving harder Right, and God knows how much other stuff.
So I'm a bit teed-off here, because I very much like Trump's anti-establishment message & his strong anti-illegal immigration stands, just as I like Bernie's anti-establishment ethos too. It is the right message I believe. But my number one messenger got knee-capped by the DNC and the Clinton's, and my number two messenger has some fatal flaws that I couldn't quite get over.
The saddest part of all this is: It really does seem the mood in the country and time for a change is now; it's a shame if it will be wasted, and it's a shame that Trump is the vehicle we are left with. But then maybe this is the way these things go, and we have to accept agents of change with all their flaws? If he wins, I'm going to try to be optimistic about successfully getting an anti-establishment candidate in the WH, and hope most of the talk he's spouted was salesmanship he believed he needed to use to win, and that there may be more to him that may indeed reflect my values.
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Wow! This was carthartic! Sorry about the length!