Trump voters

Bill Clinton is almost certainly the most popular person in American politics. A new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll showed that 56 percent of people have a positive view of the former president while just 26 percent hold a negative one. I start with this quote because Bill is now on the campaign trail for Hilary. When a recent reporter following Bill was asked how things are going he responded, great. Last week in Iowa Bill had a rally which was led off by Katy Perry and they had a crowd of 4,000. Trump routinely has crowds of three or four times that number. To counter this, the anti-Trump people say he has people at speech locations in advance to build up publicity. I assume this is true but it seems logical to me that other candidates do the same thing. Trump to me, remains an enigma. I am at a loss to explain the number of people at his rallies. I am convinced that Trump knew right from the start that he could not enter the race as an ordinary politician. First of all he was not one and if he tried to compete on that basis he would have gotten nowhere. His bombastic arrogance rubs many people the wrong way but his bluntness is refreshing to many. One recent example: he was asked by a reporter regarding his challenge to Hilary about her calling him sexist, if what he said to her was a threat and he said, yes. All politicians that I have known would have backed away from the word threat but not Trump. As brazen as that is to most people there are many who also like the directness. The big question that everyone is asking is will all those people who stand in line to hear Trump speak show up to vote.