The Fifth of November

When the Saturday Night Live’s Maya Rudolph is more “electable” than the actual candidate she portrays, we have reason to be curious about what will happen, and which electoral path serves up our next US President.

To understand our upcoming future, we can look at four categories of “players.” Voters, parties, the state, and “the people.”

First, the voters. They think they are the most important part of the election. Many of them now have met and gotten to know a bit about the “other” side’s voters. . .