Last night I heard a woman sitting a
few seats down from me say this to the man she was with. For verisimilitude's sake, you have to
imagine it delivered in a classic early 1980s Valley Girl-speak, and without
the slightest trace of irony:
"I've decided to be less judgmental of women. [Pause.] It's not fair to hold them up to my standard."
My initial impulse, of course, was to grab the man
by the arm and shout, "Run away! Run away!"
/But then I realized that he knew
perfectly well what he had gotten into; they'd been trading
passive-aggressive barbs since the moment he sat down with her. He'd
long-since made his choice.
I feel much the same way about voters
in this election. I've read a number of posts and articles this week mentioning "undecided"
voters. I don't believe there are very many of those -- certainly not
if the choice is about Trump versus Clinton. Maybe a few dazed or
confused Democratic or Republican voters can still be picked off by third-party candidates, or vice-versa.
And a lot of voters -- particularly Trump voters, I suspect, and
particularly Trump voters who haven't been in the habit of voting for
years -- may be undecided about whether they'll actually cast a
ballot at all.
But this year, pretty much anyone who
makes it to the voting booth has already made up their mind about who
they're voting for, and why.
Turnout, I suspect, will be
everything.
Minute's up.
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