Keep a good thought

So, the contest is tightening,

right, and time is moving now,

right, and we remember how the

hidden majority for Brexit had

simmered for months below this

very margin dividing the right

candidate from the unthinkable

one. Two points, adduced in an

interview in the Post are ger-

mane to these variations:

Britain, for all her ingenious

bulwarks against barroom popu-

list governance, lacks the re-

gal impediment of the Elector-

al College, to thwart the tiny

populations, even in their en-

thusiasms.

And another thing to remember,

against the drumroll of might,

makes right:

              He doesn’t have a lot of patience 

              for detailed policy discussions. 

              I agree his bar is low. But for him 

              to be presidential, patient, polite, 

              and seem interested — he has not gone 

              through anything like this before. 

              With all due respect to his primary 

              opponents, they’re not Hillary Clinton.

David Plouffe

  Campaign manager

  for both of Obama's

  electoral victories

The Washington Post

September 26, 2016