And that is why the bar is set so low by the Democrats.

I’d argue that’s no worse a metric than picking purely based on pragmatism instead of policy positions.

Try Googling the names of past and current candidates and the word “likable”. While search results are tailored to the user, at least for me, Kerry, Obama, and Trump actually all turn up more results for such a search than Clinton does. Gore certainly turned up less (the age of the internet may be a factor), but there…

This is my point, yes, even if “popular” is a very strong word for even her highest favorability ratings. People are more demanding of people interviewing for the job than people who have already settled into the job, especially when they aren’t allowed to fire them.

Probably because of all the people who come out of the woodwork when the subject arises (such as in the comments on this very article) who insist they don’t want someone likable for president, they want a boring wonk. These people are loud, but when you look at the results over the last couple decades, they get…

Literally every time she is in a position where the general public has any say over whether she’ll get a new job or not and she has to try to convince them to give it to her, she becomes more distrusted and more disliked. Huh! Almost like once she’s no longer front and centre, people stop thinking about her as much.

Her approval ratings are also in the basement, even if his are in some kind of unmarked subbasement used for illicitly storing nuclear waste.

People can dislike multiple people for the same reason, you know.

If you could substantially dispute reality, you’d have a point.

Again, denying that facts are facts doesn’t make it so.

Denying that facts are facts doesn’t make it so.

It’s always been hard to tell the difference between radfems and the religious right. Now it’s also hard to tell either from Trump supporters. Congratulations!

It doesn’t fail on that assumption because it’s not an assumption. It doesn’t matter if people disagree because it’s not a matter of opinion, it’s a matter of fact. A fetus is not a person. Anyone that thinks a fetus is a person is wrong.

No, that’s not the basis of my argument at all. It’s my dismissal of the utterly nonsense counter-argument you presented.

Are you familiar with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Access to healthcare is a basic human right.

Nowadays, making young Democrats cry has been outsourced to the delegates.

The lives of the victims of wars fought in foreign lands are much less important than optics at home, you see.

He didn’t win the popular vote in Florida according to what was actually counted. If he really wanted to win, he should have, you know, asked them to count all the votes.

I’m not and never have been.

The phrase “their body” includes a possessive.