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Originally Posted by bawac34618
In a nation of 300 million people, you would think that we could have found somebody better than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to compete for the top job in the country.
There were a few competent Republicans but they didn't get a lot of support. I am thinking about people like Kasich and Rubio. On the Democratic side, Joe Biden was the answer but he didn't run. Bernie was too far left and Hillary was doomed from the start because of her corruption.
Do you think this election cycle was a fluke or do you think we are getting to a point where competent, qualified people don't even want the job anymore?
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But the starker picture is this, only about 58% of eligible voters voted in 2016, of that, about 5% voted for other non GOP or democrat parties, so in the balance, Trump was elected by about 25% of the voters. The 42% who sat it out may be a sleeping giant, hurt them badly enough and some of them will react. Typically, elections have been close, tip that by a few percentage points and you can win. Whoever runs, democrat, republican, or other, would be wise to appeal to the disenfranchised voter. I think running for president should be a duty to country, just as a soldier wants to serve their country, they don't necessarily want to go to war. So I don't really trust anyone who actually wants the job, I'd rather hear that it's a job that needs to be done.