According to the latest PDP tracking polls of likely voters, most trump supporters are highly enthusiastic about voting for him--far more than Hillary supporters are excited about voting for her.
PDP writes:
However, turnout in a close election will likely decide the winner of the race and, even though Mrs. Clinton definitely has the larger GOTV [get out the vote] operation, her supporters are markedly less enthusiastic than Trump voters. A whopping two-thirds (66%) say they are “Extremely Enthusiastic” about voting for Mr. Trump in November, while less than half (45%) say the same about voting for Mrs. Clinton. Another roughly one-fifth (22%) of Trump voters say they are “Very Enthusiastic” juxtaposed to 28% for Mrs. Clinton.
That makes 88% of Trump supporters either highly or extremely enthusiastic about him--so very likely to vote--vs. 73% for Clinton. We can expect to hear Trump bragging about that the next time he's in front of a TV camera.
But, more importantly, as PDP points out, " . . . turnout in a close election will likely decide the winner of the race . . . "
Almost a century ago, in the aftermath of World War I, Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote in The Second Coming . . .
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Those of us who think that a Trump presidency would be catastrophic in terms of human rights, the economy, the environment, jobs and climate—not to mention what having a cocksure, thin-skinned narcissist’s finger on the nuclear trigger might mean—had best look to our own convictions and connect with our passion. As Hillary has pointed out, this isn’t a reality show. In this election, it’s our one and only reality that’s at risk.