This election defies convention. It is truly changing the face of American presidential politics and not for the better.
Despite Michelle Obama's sage advice, "When they go low, we go high," it's virtually been impossible to keep this race out of the gutter.
Donald Trump's strategy is to say something completely outrageous, unpresidential, and false, steal the news cycle, and then double down on his remarks until he makes his next outrageous statement.
It's worked for him so far. He's virtually all we talk about.
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We even talk about Trump when we talk about his opponent. And much of what we say about Hillary Clinton is infected by her own questionable track record.
With her, it seems that every few days another scandal pokes one more hole in her leaky bucket of a campaign.
Yesterday's release of 40 "personal" emails, under court order, seemed to show a pattern of quid pro quo between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary's Department of State.
Trump called it "pay to play" yesterday, and I think it's going to stick. Reportedly, there will be more damaging emails coming.
This morning's Rasmussen Reports general election poll shows the race back within the margin of error at a three-point Clinton lead. It seems to show that she's blown an up to 15-point bounce from July's Democratic Convention.
This poll could be an outlier, and we'll probably know by tomorrow if Hillary's latest emails are impacting what was a double-digit lead over Trump.
I suspect she's in trouble again with Independents and undecideds.
In the meantime, the third-party option of Gary Johnson and Bill Weld is getting a bit more media attention, but it seems mired at between 8 to 9 percent in the national polls.
The ticket needs a 15 percent average in five selected national polls to appear in the presidential debates. But it's not looking promising.
Governor Johnson admits that he and Governor Weld's presidential bid is finished, if he doesn't appear on the debate stage with Trump and Clinton.
So, we may face a horrible binary choice in November. Neither candidate is fit to be president.
Wouldn't it be nice if Hillary did the right thing for the country, said that her campaign's problems were too distracting, dropped out of the race...and the Democrats drafted Joe Biden?
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