C'mon. Gotta be discussed.

Love him or hate him, he's a great marketer.

Ability to govern and to meet expectations of the electorate ??

I find BOTH those who LOVE him and those who HATE him to be equally silly.

It seems obvious to me that he doesn't actually believe the "positions" he is taking. He is saying stuff to get media attention... And it is working. As Monroe stated, I agree that he is a "great marketer." People belittle his business accomplishments, but that is because they look at him from a real estate/fiscal standpoint and not the marketing standpoint where he is truly most accomplished. I think much of Trump's support is not because people even agree with what he is saying, but because people are so fed up with Washington they are willing to vote for a guy who it seems only cares about giving Washington the middle finger.

My suspicion is that Donald Trump will actual end up being very "middle of the road" in his initiatives. For that reason, being a staunch fiscal conservative, I won't vote for him. But I also don't have the strong love/hate for him that so many others do. Nothing to fear in a moderate.

Trump did a nice job polishing off the Republican field. My girlfriend who is in politics thought he had the nomination in the bag before the first primary. I wasn't so sure believing that a narrowed field would make a difference for Cruz or Rubio after the first couple of contests. After Trump won Nevada big with Jeb Bush out of the race that threw the narrow field theory out the window. To be fully qualified as president someone should have held a national office before (Governor or Senator as example). How else would you know how govern? It's not to say its impossible to succeed without political experience but it makes it more difficult. Trump says he'd like to put a tax on companies that off shore jobs, pull back on defense commitments to concentrate on terrorism. There are some issues that he is to the left of Hillary Clinton. Nobody knows really what he would do if becomes president though, whereas with Hillary its more clear its going to be a continuation of Obama's policies, notably his monetary policy which has been successful in managing the economy. The overtime exemption threshold for salaried workers was just doubled by the administration. Hillary is going to be a safer choice. You can put a vote in for Hillary with the idea that if it is Trump it isn't the end of the world like it would be with Ted Cruz. That guy wanted to turn back all social progress.

Both parties have flawed candidates.

Trump and Sanders' supporters are much more passionate then Hillary's.

It remains to be seen if Sanders supporters would come out for Hillary or just stay home.

Trump,being a lesser known commodity,also has a better chance to win over voters by "molding" his image.

I also think,especially after the release of the Inspector General's report last week,that the email issue is going to dog Hillary through the campaign.It remains to be seen how much Sanders uses it in the next week.

Same might be the case with the Republican base voting Gary Johnson.

WSJ and NBC had a report that basically said for every 10% of Sanders people that vote for Clinton her vote percent goes up 1%. They have estimated that she will get 70% of his voters. Thus if she is at 45% (currently 45 Clinton 41 trump) then she will end up at 52%. Trump will get very very few sanders voters (his views on climate change alone will drive them away). And Johnson (libertarian) will siphon a few votes away from him. Dems will end up making up and sanders will go after and enjoy going after trump on her behalf.

I would really like to see these polls translated to "percent of electorate who might actually vote" versus percent responding becasue the apathy/disgust factor in this November's elections will be at an all-time high. Lesser politicians on the ticket, especially Senate and House candidates, have to be completely apoplectic over the way this is going; party loyalty is anything but a given, "anybody but him/her" cross-party voting will be a real issue, etc, etc.

Outside of a convention, when have any two candidates ever made a pact to cooperate to block a third like Cruz/Kasich? Makes me long for a settled monarchy.

They could dig up General Dwight Eisenhower to be trump's runningmate and they wouldn't sniff 200 electoral votes, much less the 270 needed.

Look for a final EV tally of around 347 to 191. And get used to the phrase: "Madam President"

Bet you changed your mind on that is the last 3 days.

Non-partisan PredictWise says at least a 73% chance of HRC as the next Pres.

I think Trump may keep an edge with the economic issue,if he keeps the pressure on Mrs. Clinton to release the transcripts of the speeches she gave to Wall Street groups.
Its hard to come off as being for the little guy and anti Wall Street if you're making big bucks to give speeches to the same people to you're vowing to rein in and if those speeches don't criticize them in any way.

There has to be something there ,or she would have released them when Sanders asked about them.

They were talking about the Tax Return issue on the news out here.
Apparently,he released some type of financial statement which went into detail
about his finances.

When the issue of releasing his tax returns, while under an audit, first came up, I asked our corporate accountant about it.

He said that the IRS representative who said he "could" release his tax
returns, while he was being audited,was 100% correct.

He also said that because he "could",doesn't mean he "should".He said he would advise him not to release anything until the audit was complete and a decision issued.

I think "working American" is code for "Union."

Perhaps he means more than just union, but even taken alone, 14 million is a big enough population to sway the vote one way or the other.