Huffington Post Can't Make Trump Go Away by Ignoring Him

As of this precise second–and this might well change by the time I finish this sentence–there are 21 people running for president. Twenty have officially announced, and one (Governor John Kasich) is expected to join the race soon. Some of them will be weeded out by the first debate, some will vanish by Iowa, all but two (probably) will be gone by next summer and eventually one of them will actually become the 45th president of the United States. Some of those 21 people are more likely to reach that level than others, but no one has cast a single vote, and no one will for another 199 days. We’re all just guessing.

These things tend to go crazy. At this point four years ago, Michele Bachmann was rising in the polls and would end up winning the Iowa straw poll, knocking out two candidates right then and there. Over the next few months, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich would all surge and fall in the polls; Cain, a man who was running for public office for the first time, even reached the cover of Newsweek magazine. Cain never ever had a realistic shot of becoming president, and it seems quite possible, in retrospect, looking at that smoking ad, that he was maybe insane.