David Marcus goes to San Francisco and finds the regular folks there aren't very excited about the presidential race, no matter whom they support.
Sam’s Tavern in San Francisco was established in 1867. It is the kind of place that makes you wonder if Mark Twain or Jack Kerouac ever caroused in its cozy confines, but what I found there this week was a better conversation about the election than most of the professionals can pull off these days. I had started the day talking to Cliff over breakfast at a diner. He teaches at Brigham Young University and was visiting the city with his wife.
’m still frustrated by both choices,' he told me. 'But when I look at the results, there is only one way to vote. But it isn’t always easy.' He reminded me of a guy I spoke to in Virginia recently who struggled to find his specific moral objection to Trump, but was quite certain that he had one somewhere.
Both of these types of voters exist, in my experience, almost equally in both trenches of our political divide. At the airport on the way to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, I sat over a plate of eggs with a guy on his way back from Munich to Portland, Oregon, having a beer. Portland is very blue, but the rest of the state is almost all pro Trump,' he said. 'I was just saying to my wife, she really dislikes Trump, that I can kind of see both sides.' It is these partisans who still respect others who vote differently from them who may well decide this election. It is a thoughtful group, maybe a minority, maybe not, but a group that all of us should be able to learn from.
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