Damn, this is not the sort of rhetoric I expect from USA Today

[conuly]

A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or to shine George W. Bush's shoes

LOL, that poll. Who the hell is scrolling to the bottom just to say they "don't know" how they feel about the editorial? Look, either you think Trump is the scum of the earth, or (somehow) the salt of the earth. How can you still be undecided about this!?

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[pauraque]

I could imagine someone who is surrounded by Trump supporters and previously drank the kool aid, but who is starting to realize they've been deceived, feeling "undecided".

[conuly]

I guess.

[redbird]

I saw a poll on a completely different subject lately ("would you rather Northern Ireland joined the republic and stayed in the EU, or stayed in the UK and left the EU?") that got about 5% "undecided, but I would vote," which in that case I think meant "if there was an actual referendum, I'd start thinking hard about this, asking my friends, etc."

Note that USA Today managed a degree of "undecided" itself a year ago: they said Trump is unqualified for the presidency, but did not actually endorse Clinton.

[conuly]

I wonder what it'd look like if we did have formal qualifications for the presidency....

[redbird]

If we did, they'd probably have been written in 1787, like the minimal ones we have now, and add something like property ownership to the list. Or 1887, and might specify that only white men were eligible. (I'm fairly sure the only thing the constitution rules out is a religious test, though there are certainly people who won't vote for anyone who [they think] isn't a Christian, as well as people who won't vote for a non-white, or a woman (and not all of them are the same people.))

[zesty_pinto]

I feel a fair number of these supporters are taking this on a suicide path. The Politico article on Trump supporters in Johnstown, PA just told me a lot of those supporters are willing to see themselves going down with the ship if it meant killing congress after being neglected for so long.

The others who are having second thoughts probably already felt it before they made such realizations as when they thought ACA and Obamacare were two separate entities. If that reality check wasn't enough, or when Trump's attempt to remove Dreamers was rejected, or when his attempt to ban trans soldiers was rejected; anyone still in this who is keeping track of the news probably doesn't care if they're on the train as long as it explodes with a big enough bang.