Why Trump is the 'Obama' in this election

The PC police are at it again, and this time they are eating one of their own.

Ellen Degeneres is under fire on social media for a photoshopped picture she tweeted showing her riding on the back of "the fastest man in the world," Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, with the caption, "This is how I'm running errands from now on."

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The twitterverse pounced on her with accusations of racism.

Usain Bolt apparently thought the tweet was OK. He retweeted it from his personal account, but that didn't stop the onslaught.

I joined the "Cashin' In" crew on Fox News this weekend, and I suggested that the PC police and their constant witch hunt is driving people like Ellen Degeneres to vote for Donald Trump.

Every time the PC police devour one of their own, a small contingent of the angry PC mob wakes up and realizes what they are doing is ridiculous. These are the people who will enter the voting booth and quietly vote for Donald Trump and help push him over the top in November.

TV pundits in recent days have been composing Trump's political epitaph as they read the polls and compare the numbers to what happened four years ago between Romney and Obama.

What the pundits have wrong in this election is that they are comparing Hillary Clinton to Obama and Trump to Romney. Their error is that Trump is the Obama of this election.

Before your head explodes because of my comparison of Trump and Obama, let me explain.

Elections have less to do with ideology and more to do with the "it factor."

The ideological debate is done. Trump is the conservative Republican, and Hillary is the liberal Democrat. Voters who watch 24-hour TV news every day have already decided between Trump and Hillary, and that decision is set in stone.

Now it is the race to convince the rest of America.

The people who will make up their minds about who they will vote for in the next 70-some days are voting on the personality, not the politician. Boring Hillary Clinton has more in common with Mitt Romney than Barack Obama in the minds of these later deciding voters.

Donald Trump has an enthusiastic following that could only be compared to Barack Obama's, but the president is not on the ballot this time. Tired, boring Hillary is.

Hillary will go down in the history books next to boring candidates like Romney, McCain, John Kerry, Al Gore and Bob Dole. What those candidates all have in common is that those candidates didn't have "it."

People who watch Ellen Degeneres every day instead of Fox News and CNN don't know or care about the policy positions of each candidate. They will vote on the personality of the candidate, and Hillary's is certainly lacking.

If you remove politics, and it comes down to personality and the enthusiasm of the voter, Trump wins. That may be his only likeness to Obama, but it may be the most important comparison when it comes to winning.

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