It shouldn't. Politics is a team sport. An awful lot of people decide whether they're on Team Democrat or Team Republican and that's who they vote for.

Sure, but then they clearly aren't weighing up the pros and cons.

There's two step and three step. Try and assess the concerns being touted and pick your own main concerns. Then step back and take a look at the country - do we need to go right or left? Is the country headed in the right direction? The country's been headed right for 30-50 years, making it easier for me to vote since my last step is always the country needs to go left. If you're talking pronouns, etc., you're wasting your time - it's inconsequential, and it's an example of how we got here. Try and look at it abstractly and don't vote with your emotions.

The cartels were advertising on social media overseas to get people to pay $35k in China to get them to the US border. Not good. Leaving Afghanistan was a front page debacle, and partly a set up by Trump. Trump was able to control perceptions, now he's losing that ability and we need to capitalize on that. Iran is a disaster so far; I still hope for something good to come out of it, even though it will help Trump.