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I had a conversation this morning with a friend, who announced to me she’s going to vote for Donald J. Trump this fall for president of the United States.<\/p>\n

She is likely among a majority of Texas Panhandle voters who’ll do so. That’s no surprise, given this region’s strong Republican ties and its apparent intense loathing of Democratic nominee-to-be Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

OK, so the conversation progressed.<\/p>\n

I took a deep breath, looked over my friend’s shoulder at the TV screen in the lobby — which always<\/em> is turned to the Fox News Channel — and said without offering specifics, “But Trump is not fit for the office.”<\/p>\n

“Neither is Hillary,” my friend said.<\/p>\n

I could feel my eyebrows lift.<\/p>\n

“What has she done” to make her unfit for the presidency? I asked.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know,” my friend said. “All I know is that I cannot vote for her.” She said she intends to vote for someone for president, it just won’t be Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

I mentioned Gary Johnson, the recently nominated former New Mexico governor who’s going to run for the second election in a row as a Libertarian candidate for president.<\/p>\n

She was unaware of Johnson’s candidacy. I encouraged her to take a look. She said she would.<\/p>\n

We then agreed that we won’t talk politics from this day on … until after<\/em> the election in November.<\/p>\n

We’re still friends. I hope she still considers me a friend.<\/p>\n

I took a profound feeling of non-acceptance away from that brief conversation this morning. I don’t get the sense that there’s anything in Trump’s alleged “platform” that appeals to my friend. She’s just not going to vote for Clinton because, I presume, she doesn’t trust her.<\/p>\n

As for Trump, he’s tapped into some unknown reservoir of something<\/em> among voters.<\/p>\n

I know that he’s reeled in at least one Texas voter who’ll cast her vote for him.<\/p>\n

My sense, though, is that the my\u00a0friend has revealed\u00a0more about the general electorate’s mood going into this presidential campaign than perhaps she realized.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot negative karma\u00a0in the air.<\/p>\n\n

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