# Voters born in the '90s need to get a clue

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 20, 2016, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-born-in-the-90s-need-to-get-a-clue/766423 "2016-09-20T07:59:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-born-in-the-90s-need-to-get-a-clue/766423/150 "2016-09-22T13:22:05Z")

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> [@Pantastic](#):
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> One truck is aimed at babies at play. Observers are screaming that I need to help the one with a big D on her chest into the driver’s seat because she’ll only hit five babies instead of ten.

Much of the confusion in these threads is due to badly wrong assessments of the comparative efficacies of possible Presidents. **Pantastic** , let me ask you to rank possible Presidents, as I did in the following post. If indeed you find Hillary almost as bad as Trump, we can dispense with further confusion — I’ll just walk away, pitying your ignorance.

> [@Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign Discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clintons-presidential-campaign-discussion/753873/1059):
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> On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you estimate the “goodness” for the U.S. of various possible 4-year Presidents? I might come up with something like  
> Biden 9.0  
> Clinton 8.5  
> Sanders 6.5  
> Christie 5.5  
> Kasich 4.2  
> Cruz 1.5  
> Rubio 1.0  
> Trump -3.5
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> (The -3.5 for Trump is optimistic; it assumes he spends much of his term out-of-the-way, or well sedated.)
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> Given the enormity of the competence gap between Clinton and Trump, this election is surely the most important of our lifetimes. The U.S.A. is faced with an existential crisis.
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> This is not the time to debate whether we like how Hillary combs her hair. Heck, she could confess to felonies and it would still be clear to all rational observers that they should campaign as vigorously for her as possible!

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