Introduction
This has been an historic and history-defying summer for US
politics. Hillary Clinton has broken through the proverbial glass
ceiling and become the first woman to receive a major party
nomination for the highest office in the land. At the same time,
she is a candidate who is below water in some polls by over 11% on
her favorable/ unfavorable ratings (42%-53%) and believed by a
majority of the electorate to be neither honest nor trustworthy.
Yet, if the election were held today, she is projected to win
enough electoral votes to be elected president even if she lost all
of the states presently considered to be toss-ups.
If this campaign has taught us anything, it is that there are no
sure things in politics. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential
candidate who dispatched 16 other candidates in the Republican
primaries with the greatest of ease, is now having a hard time
staying above 40% in the general election polls.
