Is America poised for its first female President?

One of the most anticipated and divisive elections in recent history comes to its climax today as Americans decide which history to make through the polls. The race to the White House to replace the country’s first ever black president, Barack Obama, has the potential of producing the first ever female president to sit in […]

One of the most anticipated and divisive elections in recent history comes to its climax today as Americans decide which history to make through the polls.
The race to the White House to replace the country’s first ever black president, Barack Obama, has the potential of producing the first ever female president to sit in the Oval Office in person of Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
If the election results go the other way, America and the rest of the world may have to come to the reality that one of the most controversial persons in 21st century – Republican candidate Donald Trump – will become practically the most powerful man in the world.
Clinton secured the Democratic nomination June 14 after winning the primary in the District of Columbia bringing to an end a keenly contested primary with Bernie Sanders. Weeks earlier, Trump had reached the number of delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination defeating 16 other contenders along the way.
The key issue the Trump campaign continuously raises against Clinton during the long and bitter campaign period was her handling of classified information through a private server.
When FBI Director James Comey last month sent a letter to Congress saying the FBI had discovered emails in a separate investigation that could be connected to the now-closed probe of whether Clinton mishandled classified information, Republicans rejoiced while Democrats became furious.
However, Comey told lawmakers Sunday the agency hasn’t changed its opinion that Clinton should not face criminal charges after a review of new emails. “Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July,” Comey said.
For Trump, it has been one scandal after the other: From saying he will erect a wall to stop Mexicans from coming into the USA to assuring of making the US inaccessible to Muslims, and being quoted with several unprintable words that denigrate women, ethnic and religious minorities, among others.
During and after the Democratic primaries, Clinton received numerous newspaper endorsements including from papers that rarely endorsed Democrats. A wave of other endorsements followed after a lewd tape of Trump from 2005 leaked on October 7.
The final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of the 2016 presidential race on Sunday saw Clinton on a four-point lead over Trump while in CNN’s poll of polls, Clinton edged Trump with a three-point lead. The CNN poll of polls includes: The CBS News Poll conducted Nov. 2-6; The Bloomberg Politics/Selzer & Co. Poll conducted Nov. 4-6; The NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted Nov. 3-5; The ABC News/Washington Post Poll conducted Nov. 2-5; The McClatchy/Marist Poll conducted Nov. 1-3 and the Fox News Poll conducted Nov. 1-3.
Reuters reported that more than three quarters of Germans believe U.S.-German ties would come under severe strain if Trump is elected president, and fellow Republican and former president George W. Bush reportedly told Republican strategist Ron Christie he “wondered if he’d be the last Republican president”.
If the candidates are seen as two evils or a choice between Pharaoh and the Red Sea, as many analysts have canvassed, polls and opinions suggest that Clinton is seen by majority as the lesser of the two evils. Will she become the first ever female president for the country? Americans decide today.