Americans casting early ballots and voting in the first hours of Election Day are looking to elect a ‘strong leader’ as the next president, more than they want other characteristics that usually drive voters. More than one-third of them, 36 per cent, said a strong leader is at the top of their shopping list, a quality that on its face describes the swashbuckling Republican Donald Trump more closely than it does Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Trump, the hard-charging reformer known more for his merciless business acumen than for blue-sky thinking, has cut a unique path through Americans’ political life, arguing for 17 months that the nation needs a bold outsider to upset entrenched elites’ apple carts and ‘drain the swamp’ in Washington.
Eighty-five percent said they ‘just want it to be over’; another 72 percent described their moods as ‘anxious’ and 71 percent were ‘nervous.’ And quite frankly I don’t blame anyone for such a thought. In fact I will be starting the planning stages of being in the Islands 4 years from now. Sounds like a plan, don’t you think?