You have to consider we had the two most disliked and most unwanted candidates for the presidency in our history. At least from the point Gallup and Pew Research started keeping track of these things since 1952. Both probably would have lost and probably big to any other major party presidential candidate since 1952. Both were disliked that much.

Trump was one lucky SOB to have Hillary as his opponent. If she had given it even a half hearted college try, she would have won fairly easily. But she didn't. I realize it is very difficult if not impossible if you were a Hillary supporter to acknowledge all of this. But the fact is only 38% of all Americans had a positive view of her, favorable is the word used in the polls.

It is all Americans who decide presidential elections, not just Democrats. All that vote that is. I suppose the bottom line was 2016 was between two candidates that a minority of Americans actually wanted one or the other to win.

Perhaps this has something to do with the polarization and ultra high partisanship we have these days. Maybe we'll never see another election when a majority of Americans view both major party candidates in a favorable or positive light. But in 2012, both Obama and Romney were seen in a positive light by a majority of Americans. The only election prior to 2016 where one of the major party candidates wasn't seen in a positive light was in 1964 with Barry Goldwater who had a 43% favorable. But LBJ trounced him 61-39. Still, Goldwater had a higher percentage of Americans who viewed him favorably than Clinton, 38% and Trump at 36%.

Perhaps it's time we put None of the Above on the ballot. If none of the above wins, we have a new election between two new candidates. Make the two major parties come up with a candidate that the majority of Americans want as their president even when they try not to.




It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.