[quote=flu-redux] His strongest supporters are beyond any rational thought proccess and beyond thinking as a rational humans. Its all driven by emotion, anger, hate, frustration, and anything that is anti establishment no matter how crude, how vulgar, how reprehensible is what is turning out to be. Its not just the u.s., its Russia, UK, Philippines, and evrn informant where Merkel is losing popularity.

You cannot explain, rationalize, or persuade these folks even if Trump was Satan himself. It’s sad actually.

We are approaching very dark times I am afraid.[/quote]

Watching this election cycle has convinced me that there is a sizeable part of the population who will vote Rep no matter what, and a certain sizeable part of the population who will vote Dem no matter what. That is their brand and they will be loyal to it…no matter what.

What many elections come down to, especially this one, is to get as many of the fence sitters and independents as possible. The side most successful at doing that wins.

With the events of the last week, I’m not sure I see a path forward for the Trump. He’s virtually locked out most of the women that are fence sitters or independents, having already done that with Hispanics, Muslims, and a host of other segments of the population.

I think this debate is his last chance. If he doesn’t do something spectacular (and I really can’t imagine what that would be), the race is over. If I were Hillary and Trumps polling numbers continue downward after tonight, I would probably cancel the third debate. There would be no reason to hold it.