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America’s Choice Between Two Wealthy New York Candidates for President

The presidential elections of 2016 will be remembered as a competition between two of the least liked candidates in American history. Normally a candidate’s winning strategy is to magnify the attention to paid to them. In 2016 the candidate most in the news at the moment drops in the polls making Donald Trump’s incessant Twitter strategy for winning the Republican primary an obvious liability.

Hillary Clinton’s saving grace in this campaign is that she’s running against someone even more unpopular than she is. While it doesn’t seem difficult to figure out who the real Donald Trump is there is constant debate over who the real Hillary Clinton is. This is surprising given her long life in the political spotlight.

During the Democratic primary Bernie Sanders turned what was supposed to be a coronation into a horse race mostly by raising questions about Clinton’s long relationship with halls of great wealth and power. Whatever you might think about Sander’s politics this rather odd looking old man who wore frumpy clothes and drove an economy car was able to make the case that her long association with the political elite compromised her ability to relate to the struggles of ordinary Americans. While Clinton eventually dodged the Sanders threat to her nomination his charges still stick. Neither the current Democratic nor Republican nominees have for a very long time had to pump their own gas or buy their own groceries.

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