Crooked Hillary!

The biggest mistake you're making is you believe I have a party. I vote based on the ideas and the platform. The republican party has repeatedly failed to interest me in their platform since they're too busy stuffing it full of hate based ideology and flat out bad ideas. The green party is a joke. the libertarian party is arguably worse. That leaves one party that at least has a platform, a plan, a viable candidate and can be worked with to achieve things. I consistently review the other parties to see where they stand and I vote across party lines when I see competent reasonable candidates who seem better qualified or have a plan that I more firmly support.

That's only half of what I said though. You don't have to have a party to have a vested interest in a certain political viewpoint. You said you vote based on ideas and platform, and that's a mistake, because it's all lies, or twisted halftruths that they will either never follow through on or will implement in a way that primarily helps themselves and their friends. It doesn't matter what their platform is other than a barebones guideline to the way they may handle theoretical situations, and even then you can only assume that as far as you can trust them to hold to even a wireframe of their platform once they get into office.

I get that most people don't have the kind of time I do to research everything they and everyone connected to them have done in their entire lives, but even if you don't it's clear to at least me that Trump is more trustworthy than Hillary just based on his actions, his rallies, the way he talks, everything. He says the first thing that comes to his mind, he doesn't think anything through very hard and that means he's being mostly honest. Hell, it's actually hurting him in the polls, he should have this election on lockdown but because he can't think about what he is saying even for a second before it leaves his mouth he doesn't. Regardless of what those viewpoints ARE or how shitty they are, we actually hear a lot of what he thinks, what is going through his head. If he was thinking "we should eradicate all Mexicans in the US because deporting them takes too long", he would just come out and say it, while when Hillary thinks equally shitty thoughts, she does not convey them in any way, there's no way of knowing what she is actually thinking because she is so caught up in her lies it would be impossible for her to extricate herself from them without showing everyone just how much of a liar she actually is.

That's the only thing you can really accurately gauge a politician on; everything else can be faked, but you can't fake your way out of your own actions in the past (though you can attempt to erase the records). I wouldn't trust either further than I could throw them, and they are two of the worst candidates in my lifetime (unfortunately, it seems like every single election is the worst until the next, each has been more of a joke than the last and this is just the latest in that line), but the difference is I would actually attempt the toss with Trump because I mistrust him in a different way from her, I mistrust him because he is an idiot and could make an off the cuff decision to do something stupid, not because he is (anywhere near as much of) a liar, and he certainly isn't manipulative in the way she is, being manipulative requires you do garner your words in some way, and he has no real filter on what he says. He probably lies about pomegranate too, but he doesn't lie about absolutely everything; when you can lie about completely inane pomegranate that nobody could possibly care about like opening a fucking pickle jar on a late night comedy show, that means you have reached a depth of degeneracy where every fiber of your existence is a lie.