Quite a few months ago, like last September, I wrote a column about the presidential election race.

Maybe you remember it. I said I couldn’t find the person I wanted to vote for as president among the many candidates running for both partys’ nominations. Nobody seemed, well, presidential, for lack of a better description.

And, I smarted off and said that if you can’t find someone to vote for either, then cast your vote for me.

To be honest, I was trying to be humorous and a bit sarcastic. And, I must admit, at the time, I firmly believed that Donald Trump would not be the Republican nominee. I thought he was a flash in the pan, and that someone else, Jeb Bush perhaps, would suddenly rise to the top of the herd of contenders and become the GOP’s candidate by the time of the convention this coming summer.

Just goes to show what I know about politics. Not much.

It turns out Jeb is no longer around and the Donald is going along as strong or stronger than ever. No matter what crazy thing he says or does, it doesn’t seem to matter. He just keeps cruising along and winning votes and delegates.

Except, of course, in the great state of Minnesota. And, perhaps that shows the Republicans in this state have more sense than those in other states.

Just sayin.’

Now, for the past few weeks, I have been doing my own version of an informal poll about the current presidential race. I mean, why not? All the national television networks and big city daily newspapers do polls, so why not the Faribault County Register?

Of course, I must admit that this poll is totally non-scientific. I didn’t randomly call a cross-section of people and bother them at home like those other news organizations do. I just asked people who I happened to be talking to about something else anyway who they thought they might vote for come November.

Here is what I found. Democrats will vote for the DFL candidate and Republicans will vote for the GOP nominee, of course. And it looks like that will probably be Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

But, among independent voters, there seems to be a trend. Some say they will vote for Hillary Clinton only because they can’t stand Donald Trump. And some will vote for Donald Trump only because they can’t stand Hilary Clinton. So, in essence, they will be voting against someone, by voting for someone else.

Or, as one person said, voting for the lesser of two evils.

It is a strange campaign this year and, a nasty one. It is filled with crude language, accusations (false and true), name-calling, mud slinging and downright rudeness.

Most people in my informal poll agreed on one thing. They are already real sick and tired of it all. Especially the debates, where all of candidates try to yell louder than the other ones, in order to be seen as the ‘winner’ of the debate.

Although, to be fair, the Republican debate last Thursday night was relatively calm and cordial. But it was also the 12th debate and maybe they had run out of nasty things to say about each other.

A couple of the people in my poll said their two choices among the candidates were Dr. Ben Carson and Ohio governor John Kasich. Their reason was not based on those two candidates’ stances on the issues, but rather that they had both behaved like gentlemen and had not lowered themselves to mud slinging.

That’s true. But Carson has already dropped out of the race and Kasich is probably not far from doing the same.

It’s that ‘nice guys finish last’ syndrome, I guess.

And, while you, like everyone else, are probably tired of all of this political nonsense that has been going on for months and months, let me warn you. It has a ways to go a long ways to go.

And, I would bet, it will only get worse, although that hardly seems possible.

The good news is that after Nov. 8, it will all be over.

Well, the election will be over. The politics probably won’t ever be over.

And I promise, next week’s column will not be about presidential politics. Because I know you are all sick and tired of hearing and reading about it.

Me too.