To the Editor:
Here’s the real reason that polls leading up to the debate showed almost a dead heat: Half of the American people don’t view Hillary Clinton as the most qualified person ever to run for office.
They view her stunning lack of judgment, from her mismanagement of foreign affairs as secretary of state to her reckless handling of email communications as evidence that she lacks the judgment to be commander in chief. They don’t trust her ties to Wall Street and big money.
The presidency is a position that has as a most basic prerequisite the highest level of trust, ethics, integrity and judgment. Polls show that more than half of Americans have concluded that Mrs. Clinton is lacking in these attributes.
The race is close because while some will hold their noses and vote for Mrs. Clinton, others will vote for Donald Trump to voice their objection to this most objectionable candidate, not because they are enthralled with Mr. Trump.
In suggesting that the race is close because “a lot more Americans than we’d like to imagine are white nationalists at heart,” Mr. Krugman willfully ignores the true reasons that the race is so close.
LARRY DICKSTEIN
Livingston, N.J.
Note from KBJ: Paul Krugman is a despicable thug.
