Okay, anyone who was wondering is now sure of what kind of guy Trump is.
The question is, Does it really matter?
Is the election of a President supposed to be primarily a decision about what direction our country will take for the next four years? Or should it be a moral contest based on a candidate's private behavior?
It's not as if Trump's behavior is unusual. His victims didn't find it rose to the level of suing or having him arrested at the time. No one died. No one bled. Any woman reading this has probably had similar situations; I know I have. A landlord, a stepfather, a housemate's father and any number of first dates turned wrestling match. Shit happens.
Then the other side, which is easy for me to take since I was not a Trump supporter to begin with, ala Michelle Obama's rip roaring speech saying we cannot elect a man with such an offensive attitude toward women. We cannot hold him up as a role model for our children and as our representative, the "face of America" to the world. Not knowing what we know.
If possible, I'd like it if we could leave the bumper stickers and partisan talking points at the door on this thread and address the simple question, should Trump's behavior, in and of itself, be a deal breaker?
The finer points of policy and who's worse than whom can be discussed elsewhere. I'm just curious if anyone else wonders, should this be the one thing that turns voters off? Is the attitude toward women really that important?
His attitude toward women is not the major issue and should not the deciding factor if you will or will not vote for Trump.
I know about Trump and have for years, and I know he is the wrong direction but by God Hillary is no better either!
Worst election since 2004 and might be the worse ever!
Agreed this is the worst election I recall. Even the third party choices are dismal. We do, unfortunately, have a binary choice to make. It will, in reality, come down to Trump or Clinton, no matter how we justify leaving it blank, staying home, voting for Johnson or Stein, or writing in Pence/Kasich/etc. Trump has a lot more enthusiastic supporters than Clinton. The Republicans are using the strategy of suppressing enthusiasm for the Democrat, because low voter turnout favors Republicans. It is working.
A vote for anyone but Clinton or a nonvote is a vote for Trump. So anyone voting that way needs to have thought that through and decided that Clinton is a worse choice. Despite the ABC poll this a.m. on CNN saying that Trump is 20% below Clinton re: favorability with women, that does not equate to 20% of the vote. Trump can still win this thing.
In swing states like Ohio you could make the sales pitch that any vote that is not for Clinton would be for Trump ( which I would still disagree with ) but I live in Texas.
Winning the White House rests on winning the Electoral College Map and in Red States you can cast your vote for third party candidate because in the end the GOP candidate will still win.
The sad part is here in Texas on the local City levels it is very Democratic but this state really hates Clinton and I can understand why.
I would prefer every Trump voter to cast their vote for Johnson and even though Johnson come off dumb as can be he would be a hell of a lot better than Trump in the end!
Now with that written it is a few weeks out but Texas is a loss for Clinton and her focus is Ohio and Florida and Florida has that third party voter population that cost Gore in 2000 ( don't blame chad for this

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So how do you sway the third party voter like me that does not agree with your view on how any vote that is not for Clinton is for Trump?