Hope you're right and that Joe's horizons have widened ... enough. There's reason-enough for my vote--in the end--in your Title. But..
... this Year-in-Advance pre-election overload (because The Menace began his re-election campaign in Jan. 2017) Sucks so much that I hope for some Statute on the matter; I mean:

Look how long Blighty 'allows'. as-in-{sheesh}

Ever since the Twitter machine + The square-mouthed Toddler never stopped flapping that opening: I believe that the National-IQ has dropped measurably {PhD thesis in there somewhere).