| "At this point in 2004, 2008 and 2012, 134 days out, the person leading in the Real Clear Politics polling average ended up winning," Bump writes, "but in each of those contests, the eventual winner would lose his lead again before Election Day." (Philip Bump / The Washington Post) (Philip Bump / The Washington Post) The state of the 2016 race, in one quote "Trump is just insane," said Joe Place, 57, a retired autoworker who is undecided. "I vote Democrat, but I can’t vote for Hillary. ... I think she’s beholden to interests other than mine or the middle class." These comments from an up-for-grabs voter in an up-for-grabs Detroit suburb come to us from The Washington Post's Philip Rucker and John Wagner, who talked to voters in the Rust Belt and Upper Midwest to see what could be in-play (perhaps a surprising amount of this typically safe Democratic territory). For our purposes, Place's musings about whom to vote for sums up this race perfectly: It's a race to the bottom between two very unpopular candidates. And voters are loathe to chose between them. The poll numbers back that up. And it all but ensures the 2016 election will go down as one of the nastiest (and least substantive) in modern memory, writes Fix Boss Chris Cillizza, because both candidates will have nowhere to go but down even further. "Knowing that they won't win by trying to convince people how great they are, both candidates and their campaigns will fully commit to tearing down the other in an attempt to be the last one standing on election night," Cillizza writes. In other words, this presidential election is shaping up to be as difficult to watch/impossible-to-look-away-from as these epic fails I found on the Internets. At least, we at The Fix can't look away (from the gifs or the election), and we'll make sure we share with you all of 2016's most epic moments, right here in this newsletter and on The Fix. Epic fail! (giphy.com) Lol epic fail (giphy.com) Oof, epic fail. (giphy.com) Save | 