[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

As far back as I can remember, the crop of candidates up for president has always been the worst yet, and I am talking decades here. People gain comfort from familiarity, thats why Bill left with a 70% approval rating, having just lied to the American people

When Reagan got elected, everyone was saying that's it, nuclear devastation is here, but, he ended up changing the whole game for the better. Who predicted that prior to his election People don't even need to have good intentions or bad intentions, things have a life of their own, that is much bigger than one person or even one country.

The simple reality is that if they are not good, they will be out on their ear in 4 years, so it really doesn't matter, and its impossible to judge who would be better or worse

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

This whole; "Trump/Hilary will be a terrible President, Trump/Hilary will be a great President is ridiculous.

Clinton might lie her head off and be deceitful as hell but turn out to be THE best President the States have ever seen.

Trump could be the most misogynistic and promiscuous President there's ever been and have 'interns' running for their chastity, but HE could STILL turn out to be THE best President that the States have ever had.

Or either could be dreadful and be impeached within 2 years - NO ONE knows.

Yeah I agree with both of these posts in that either could be good or bad, there's always a chance that they might surprise us. Going off what I imagine they'll be like though I voted Trump as one of the worst and Hillary as average. I was torn on the Hillary one because I'm still really unsure of her and I have doubts about her that I can't reconcile, but I gave her the benefit of the doubt and said average anyway. She's probably clever enough not to repeat certain mistakes in office, I don't think she'd do anything that would risk her being a 'worst' president and will probably play things safe for the most part and just try and keep the status quo, and she probably has enough experience in the political game to prevent her from being seen as completely awful. I don't have any faith in Trump at all though (but like bots said the presidency is sometimes bigger than the person... ie. imo he could be a good president but only despite himself, not because of him )