Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Hillary Clinton still the favourite for the post of US Prez' that was published in Newsband

Hillary Clinton still the favourite for the post of US Prez

Two very different U.S. presidential candidates are competing with one another. People all over the world find debates between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump very interesting. With less than three weeks to go before the election, the campaigns saw explosive revelations about both candidates.

Ms. Clinton was leading by a little over two percentage points across an average of major head-to-head polls around the time of the first debate. Her margin grew to over 6.5 per cent after the “Access Hollywood” tapes of Mr. Trump’s offensive remarks. She is well-positioned to capture the minimum of 270 electoral college votes that are necessary to secure the presidency.

Ms. Clinton, if she finds herself in the White House, will have to focus on the economy, job-creation and the role of the government, national debt and tax cuts, Medicare and Social Security, immigration and border control, women’s reproductive rights, race relations, and a range of foreign policy issues.

Apart from the fact that this set of debates has been an entertaining exercise of US democracy, it seems to be the bitter end that should matter to the world at large. Not many in the US have been paying attention to the real problems on hand, both domestic and especially abroad. They adopted a highly objective evaluation of the present scene in USA. Trump, by his own self-defeating styles closed the doors to the White House. He has also created roadblocks to many in the Republican camp. This now poses a real challenge to the winner in the battle field. She should be/will be in a position to give the lead in this unprecedented confused climate to give the correct lead to project democratic values in the governance with the support of both the parties.

Clinton's win may be certain but what most Republican law makers now fear is the fate of their Party candidates seeking election to both houses that they might lose many seats due to Trump affect and lose majority from now.

One must have noticed that they also did the same thing like our politicians did - divide the society and rule on the basis of colour, race, religion and other communal issues. But in some cases they are above our politicians like promising to provide better health care facility, social security, better education and for everyone and many more.

In any country at the time of election, the victory does not depend upon poll conducted by newspapers or TV channels or survey by other means. It totally depends on voting result which is driven by people's faith in the candidate. If any scandal erupts before the election whether it is good or bad it directly affects the image of the candidate.

One must make note of one point and that is India, the world's largest democracy, has no debates at all. Even an uncivil, raucous debate is better than no debate.