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That Donald Trump tied for first place doesn’t come as a shock. My dental hygienist, Noreen, said yesterday she liked him, and she is about the best indicator of real life vs. the punditry. She likes Sarah Palin as well.

What Trump and Palin have in common is that they are outside the box. (As author Thomas Woods says: “Not enough to think outside the box, smash it and burn it down.”) It indicates that there is more imagination and vital life force in America than there is in the sclerotic political parties.

And Trump fits in my revised categories of presidential contenders in the second-to-top rank, right up there next to “governor of a big state” (Romney, Perry, Palin) as CEO of a major corporation, replacing this year “military commander,” which is thrown out altogether. Way ahead of most of the others.

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