2016 Postmortem
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COLUMBUS, Ohio So here we are, nearing the end of 2016s he-said, she-said race to the bottom. Through it all, through his ugly caricatures of Mexicans and Muslims, through her pretzel contortions to explain her emails, through the Russian hacking and the 3 a.m. Twitter rants and the rest, this was always going to be a hold your nose and vote election.
But at Tommys Diner, a colorful Columbus institution in a working-class neighborhood once known as The Bottoms, hold your nose and vote is giving way, for some people, to hold your nose and dont vote.
The distaste for the presidential election is obvious almost anywhere you look here in the capital of a swing state where in July 2015 Gov. John Kasich of Ohio (remember him?) became the 16th of 17 Republicans who hoped to succeed President Obama. Aaron Burnside, 23, a first-year law student at Ohio State University, was at the student union that day, listening with optimism as Mr. Kasich declared that the sun is rising in America words that now seem so quaint.
Never for a minute did Mr. Burnside, who described himself as a right-of-center, fiscally conservative, socially liberal Republican, imagine himself not casting a ballot on Election Day. But on Thursday, with early voting underway here and Mr. Trump and President Obama in town, Mr. Burnside had no idea whether he would vote for president.'>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/us/ohio-voters-trump-clinton.html?
Foggyhill
(1,060 posts)ananda
(28,831 posts)Clinton is the only choice!
longship
(40,416 posts)No DURec.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Sad.
Bear Creek
(883 posts)Even though I like to eat breakfast there, there is a definite republican bias. The so called independent voters usually are disenfranchised republcans
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,728 posts)It explains quite a bit.
TeamPooka
(24,204 posts)trying to drive down turnout