The journey of this season’s political campaigns has been more analogous to a soap opera than a US presidential election. With a few days to go, polls reflect that the competition is growing closer than just a few days ago, by about four percentage points, in the wake of a re-launching of investigations into Hillary Clinton’s alleged violation of US State Department email protocol, which has Donald Trump gloating.
America is electing a President whom a clear majority of voters deeply dislike and distrust. No wonder, an American psychological association survey has found that this election has 52 per cent Americans feeling “significantly stressed”. This is unsurprising, given the deterioration in discourse this election has seen, dragging the great upbeat American poll celebration down.