16.11.07 News Zero Ichimen - Eve of 2016 Presidential election - Sakurai Sho [English translation]

[arashitranslation]

Eve of 2016 Presidential election

During the speech on 5 Nov 2016, the supporters of Candidate Trump upheld these signboards.

"the silent majority STANDS WITH TRUMP"

The "silent majority" refers the "invisible Trump supporters" in USA, and is now drawing attention.

"Invisible Trump supporters" are people who actually support Candidate Trump, but such stance is not disclosed to even friends or families.

There seems to be such a situation there.

In the East state, a lady who is "invisible Trump supporter" is interviewed.

■ Trump supporter
"Being afraid of what others may say to you or think about you,
there are many people who cannot claim they support Trump"

■ Trump supporter
"I don't write (I support Trump) on Facebook,
in consideration of my work, I just say ‘I haven't decided' or ‘I am still thinking about it' [when I am asked about my voting preference]"

In the West state, a university student who supports Trump said this.

■ University student who is Trump supporter
"Trump supporters are labelled ‘racists' and ‘bad guy'.
Because I will be criticized loudly, I have to keep this [supporting Trump] silent."

In various places in USA, there are reports that the boards with Trump on it, placed outside ones' homes, are stolen or burnt.

Furthermore, people are scolded just by wearing a T-shirt of Candidate Trump, and their photos [putting on Trump T-shirts] are taken and spread on Internet.

There are also such interesting data.

If we look into the opinion poll about the election this time,
Compared with "telephone survey", the supporting rate of Trump from "Internet survey" is higher.

The "invisible Trump supporters", compared with telephone survey, tend to express their support to Trump in Internet survey which they need not show their faces.

And, in that survey, the supporting rate of Candidate Trump from university graduates is 39% from telephone survey and 46% from Internet survey.

And, for those with annual income USD50,000, which is around JPY5,200,000, the supporting rate from telephone survey is 44% and 50% from Internet survey.
There is evidence that there are many who are "invisible".

Thus far,
The supporters of Candidate Trump are mainly "low-income workers".
Among those "high education, high income", "Trump supporters" are considered to be invisible.

On the other hand, during the presidential election this time,
People pay critical attention to the "lies" in speeches and utterance.

There, what attracts our attention is the attempt of "fact check".
"Fact check" means "to check and confirm if it's fact" in Japanese,
there are over 100 websites in the world which check whether the speeches / utterance of the candidates of President are clear from "lies".

Among them, there is such an example of the representative "Fact Check" institute which checked the TV debate day ago.

First of all, the speech of Candidate Clinton.
"The business of Trump was broke six times."
Candidate Trump replied this with "Four times (broke)".

So the institute checked the fact,
and found that Clinton's "six times" is correct.
Trump's "four times" is a lie.

While, for the "TPP" to which both candidates oppose,
Candidate Trump pointed out that Clinton supported TPP with "Candidate Clinton had spoken that TPP was ‘the gold standard'."

In regard of this, Candidate Clinton argued that "This is not [what I said]!"
After checking the fact...
It was Candidate Clinton who lied.

In 2012, Candidate Clinton indeed spoke about TPP as "gold standard".

To this extent, perhaps attention to the lies of the candidates is also one characteristic of the presidential election this time.

Finally, on 8th, the vote will begin.

Source: News Zero http://www.ntv.co.jp/zero/ichimen/2016/11/2016-1.html