>>As I expected, there are now a whole group of women claiming Trump did to them exactly what he says in the tape he does. By my count, last night, 4 articles in different print media told the stories of 5 different women making quite similar claims. Pretty clear now that this was #NotJustWords.

I expected it as well- because it always happens. Especially when Wikileaks shows one side determined to paint the other as a misogynist sexist pig, with a conveniently timed release of the recording of a middle aged man boasting about sexual power to a much better looking younger man. When politically timed accusations surfaced against them we saw similar dished out to Bill Clinton, the Hollywood movie elite, Rolf Harris, the BBC. The list goes on and on. Some of the accusations are true, some are rebutted. How many of Clinton's turned out to be true?

Whether this takes down Trump, depends at least partly on whether Catholics (the biggest Christian denomination in the US that includes almost all Hispanics) and evangelists are more offended by the smug bigotry shown in Clinton's campaign staff emails, and decide that a sinner is better than somebody who seems to function in the bad old "no Catholics or Jews need apply" days. As one seasoned campaigner put it, "when Clinton refers to deplorables, she's referring to people of faith." Where is the apology? Trump apologized immediately.

I'd also suggest that Trump is not the only one exposed to conveniently timed leaks: who knows what is yet to come.

You can say one thing for Trump: if he somehow does it again, he can't possibly be worse than what's expected of him!