I think there are a lot of factors that are going into middle America being more astute this time around and a lot of it has to do that the failed Obama administration for the past 7 years. As you pointed out Mac, a good chunk of people voted for him because he was young and not the typical career politician that swims in DC. Given how awful he has been, factored in the idea of Clinton continuing his policies, suddenly you have a lot of people taking notice to not let that happen for another 4 years of the same sh*t. The only problem to that is we have Trump or Cruz as our alternative on the other side of the table. I've never seen so many dreadful candidates in one year. It's pathetic. And now we are going to pay the price, regardless who gets into the White House.
FYI, good post Neumatic.