For the last 6 months I've been wrapped up in what's been going on with the American presidential primaries. Well, I think my fixation may soon be coming to an end. The one candidate that I was actually excited about will almost certainly be beaten by a soulless politician with the backing of her party machine—and unless the Republican party machine does something extraordinarily corrupt and underhanded, their race is now officially over.
So, that leaves us with Hillary v Trump. Here's how I think it'll go:
Trump will say horrible things about Clinton; Clinton's supporters will take those things—plus, almost certainly, some made-up bullshit things—and accuse him of being sexist; then, talking heads will spend hundreds of hours debating which of those accusations are true, and how sexist Trump really is.
It's possible that Clinton may go after him for his dodgy business record, but that doesn't seem to have hurt him up till now. Given that she's way ahead with ethnic-minorities, my guess is that she'll target the fact that even amongst right-leaning voters, Trump already polls poorly with women. If she can limit his supporter base to only white men, she's probably got this thing in the bag. Oh, and by the way, as she goes after those right-leaning women, expect her rhetoric to get more right-wing.
Maybe I'm wrong and things will take a completely different turn, but the only thing I can see potentially shaking this up is if the FBI finally decide to go after Hillary for her emails. If that happens, I'll probably jump back in, but otherwise, I don't think I care enough to sit through the Yank equivalent of the Gillard v Abbott drama. Given that we Aussies are supposedly going to the polls in July, I should probably start paying attention to what's going on around these parts anyway.
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