Donald Trump’s sense of humour might win it for him

Forget your state-by-state polling; your analysis of the voting preferences of suburban mothers in Pennsylvania; never mind your understanding of America’s shifting demographics; your breakdowns of the Latino vote in swing states, or your perception of America’s anger issues. This election, like most elections, will be decided by personality. We all know that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton score very low on the likeability front. Trump is more reviled than Clinton, but in one important way he has the edge on her: he is funny and she is not. Look at this clip of him addressing the crowd in Florida:

Now that, no matter how much you loathe him, is quite amusing. And yet for the last two days the TV networks have been talking about Trump’s ‘lapse’ into a ‘bizarre inner monologue’ as if it were a moment of genuine insanity. This is the problem with the media and Trump.