2016 Election Night

We’ve spent a lot of time talking this year about the visceral reactions that each candidate elicits from the American public — they were both historically disliked — so what’s struck me in the initial exit polls are what Americans said about their level of fear about the future, no matter who is elected. Preliminary exit polls suggest that 17 percent of voters are excited by the idea of Clinton as president and 29 percent are scared of it; only 13 percent of voters are excited about Trump as president, while 37 percent said that idea scared them.