How can any sane person vote for EITHER Clinton or Trump?

Like people should do in every election, vote your conscience.

I don't know about sanity, but looking back at earlier elections, I don't see two candidates at the same time who were equally disgraceful. Perhaps Adams/Jefferson/Burr, in the campaign, but they were at least competent. Sometimes apparently highly-qualified candidates such as H. Hoover or G. H.W.. Bush were failures. An apparent nonentity like Truman was a success.

Carter vs Ford pitted rather unskilled candidates, but I think both were decent human beings. They served abbreviated terms.

A vote for a third party candidate in this election may not count directly, but it might help down the line. The two-party system grew out of the Adams/Burr/Jefferson election of 1800 that had to be decided in the House of Representatives on the 36th ballot.. Adams was third and Burr and Jefferson were tied. in the electoral college.

There is a small bit of hope here. As the disclosures of both candidates incompetence and bad character and judgement mount, the people actually elected for positions in the Electoral College may vote "unfaithfully." Although there are laws intended to prevent this in 21 states, the enforcement is impossible because of the first amendment. . In some states there is only a small fine for faithlessness. In the 2000 election, D.C. Elector Barbara Lett-Simmons, pledged for Democrats Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, cast no electoral votes as a protest of Washington D.C.'s lack of congressional representation.

So no matter what the result of the election of November 8, 2016, the vote that counts on January 7, 2017 may be different. A tie between Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse (or whoever) would go to the current house with each state having only one vote. This overwhelmingly favors Republicans. Does anyone want to predict the outcome?

Trump is a successful businessman. Crooked HIL-LIAR-y rode Slick Willy's coattails and then showed what kind of a failure she could be as a senator. Therefore, Trump is the best choice between the 2 since the "ESTABLISHMENT" candidate is Crooked Hil-LIAR-y, and the establishment sucks.

Because not to vote ensures a Trump win and that can not happen. As much as I dislike Clinton, Trump is dangerous and completely unelectable.

Clinton is qualified. First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, Senator, and Secretary of State. She's the most qualified non-incumbent presidential candidate in modern history.

That said, she wasn't my first choice, and our single member district plurality (also called first past the post or winner take all) means third parties will essentially never be a viable option. No third party candidate will even get a single electoral vote, much less become president.

Because sane people understand that in our first-past-the-post voting system, a vote for anybody else is a complete waste of time.

Well Clinton has been in politics for all her life.