I am not voting for either. I think Hillary is more corrupt than the average politician. I do not think she is responsible for many of the crazy conspiracies attributed to her. She is probably on par with Grant and Harding which means she is too corrupt (or at least too sloppy about it) to be president. Trump is too much of a lunatic and doofus to be president.
I think NJ's excellent above statement is accurate. I think it applies both candidates actually. It applies to Hillary's crookedness and Trump's buffoonery.
The bad, disqualifying stuff that Hillary does gets buried underneath the BS conspiracies. If there is a smoking gun, you'll never find because you have to sift through all the false murder weapons planted around it. When people cannot tell which stuff is true and know some is false, all the allegations lose creditability and start being ignored (even when they really should not be). Amazingly, the people that hate her the most bury the evidence against her with BS. I have no doubt a Hillary presidency ends in an embarrasing, easily avoidable scandal similar to Nixon's.
Same goes for Trump. The bad, disqualifying stuff he says gets burried under stuff he said that was not a big deal or stuff the media implies he said but did not actually say. The media does not make a big deal out of the birther conspiracy or cruz's dad conspiracy, but goes all in on Trump not improperly responding to being attacked by a "gold star" family that politicized their own son's death to attack Trump at a convention. When regular people see the media making a big deal out of something that was not a big deal, they ignore the stuff Trump says that really is a big deal and disqualifying as they assume the media is exaggerating. I am completely in the anti-Trump camp, but some of the washington post editorials make ridiculous claims about him that make me cringe. All I can think is "this nonsense editorial, destroying the author's credibility, is why everyone glosses over his real faults." Want to have some fun? Start reading through the washington post editorial headlines on Trump. They contradict each other on why he is bad from one to the next. After you see all the headlines, you stop trying to discern the real reason he is bad and just assume the authors are bias and full of s***.
^ The above describes the regular joes. Clean makes a good point on the partisans. The partisans do not care about ethics or even their own values (assuming they had some) anymore.
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