It’s up to US voters now

Citizens are democracy's first and last line of defense. Institutions are shaped to anticipate problems and prevent deadlock, to regulate the state's functions, to protect the weak and check the powerful. In the end, though, it is citizens who determine the country's course, based on their interests - or, rather, on what they perceive their interests to be at that time. Here is where the crucial questions of a democracy arise: Are the citizens sufficiently informed as to what is in their interest? Are they focused on short-term gains at the expense of their future? Do they like the candidate whom they are supporting, or do they just dislike his rival more? Perhaps they are too hasty to get cross with the candidate who is closer to their positions because he is not the perfect one that they desire, and, in this way, help his rival and harm their own interests? What role do the news...