If you are a person who does not think a convicted felon should be running the country,

you might think of this statistic as a glass half empty kind of number.

An exit polling conducted by NBC yesterday, 54% of New Hampshire's

Republican primary voters said that if Donald Trump were to be convicted of a

crime, they would still consider him fit to be president.

Now don't get me wrong, that is not a sign of a healthy democracy.

The majority of New Hampshire's Republican primary voters would not care if Trump

ends up a convicted felon.

By the way that would also mean that Donald Trump a Florida resident would not be able to

vote for himself as a convicted felon, although 54% of New Hampshire

Republican voters still would. Now presidential elections in this country

aren't won by a majority of Republicans or a

majority of Democrats. They are one in the margins. They are one with the

centrist, the swing voters, and the independence.

An analysis by the Washington Post showed that this election could come down to just a couple

hundred thousand voters in just seven or eight states. Again, that is also not a sign of a healthy democracy in the big picture,

but in the short term,

it is why there might be a more optimistic way of reading that exit polling.

We just got out of New

Hampshire last night at least if you're someone who believes that convicted

felons don't belong in the White House. Put another way a sizable percent of

New Hampshire Republican primary voters, 42 percent of them,

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