New York Times projection of results<\/a> based on current polling.)<\/p>\nBut let\u2019s set that aside.<\/p>\n
On the morning after Election Day, when you open up the newpaper, whose name would you rather have be emblazoned on the front page? \u00a0Regardless of what your personal feelings are about the candidates, which outcome do you think would be better for the country as a whole?<\/p>\n
And \u2013 readers who have supported Clinton all along and think she\u2019s not just an acceptable choice but just dandy and something to put a spring in your step on the way home from the voting booth, please sit this one out, \u2018kay?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The next 6 months are going to be filled with debates about whether Clinton or Trump is the lesser of two evils, or whether one can ethically\u00a0vote for a third-party candidate, or sit out the election entirely. \u00a0For many of us, the polling will tell us that our votes don\u2019t matter, given the nature of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[325],"class_list":["post-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n
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