In this day and age there are no secrets, especially for the high and mighty. Yesterday it was revealed from secret recordings that Trump is (or at least was) a lecher and Hillary is two-faced.
Let's take Trump first. There is a reason why women, even waitresses, and even underage males are not wanted in the men's lounge at our golf club. Not all men talk like Trump's recorded conversation reveals but a great many do, and most do it a little bit. If a well-endowed female sports commentator appears on the TV screen in the men's lounge very little discussion will be devoted to what she actually says. I haven't the slightest doubt that many liberal icons including John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton spoke exactly so in private. Very few men are seriously offended by this type of talk although you can bet that every politician will now claim to be. Some occasional straight shooters, such as Mitt Romney, really are and I have felt that Trump's crudeness is the real basis for Romney's antipathy.
Hillary's fault is definitely not licentiousness. She is revealed to have a sense of personal elitism. She feels that those like her who lead, as she puts it, a complicated life, have little in common with what H.L. Mencken used to call "the booboisie". Thus the person behind closed doors with her wealthy friends is quite different from the face presented to the general public. What she is in reality is anybody's guess, but it isn't at all hard to believe the numerous underground stories from the white house staff and secret service about her haughty disdainful attitude and frequent use of coarse language. Her understandable intense efforts at maintaining secrecy however are presently being foiled by today's pervasive computer hacking and it will be interesting to see what's coming next.
All this being said, I don't think many voter's minds are going to be changed by yesterday's revelations primarily because so many are voting not so much for someone as against the other. Or more precisely for or against policies. I'm for what Trump proposes that his administration will do and dead set against Hillary's plans so I will dutifully pull the Trump lever.
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