Reply #163: The electorate is a fluid, fickle bunch. On one hand they claim they [View All]

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want the best, but they vote in significant numbers for ninnies like George Herbert Walker Bush and his pathetic, desperate, booze-addled son.

And a lot of voters still swoon over Ronald Reagan, despite the man's being completely embicilic long before the Alzheimer's diagnosis.

Indiana voters picked Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 over favorite son Roger Brannigan. It seems like a fantasy realm for them to go for the east coast liberal over their local guy, but they did.

There's a dangerous bias in U.S. voters sometimes (often?) for the "regular" guy, the guy they want to have a beer with -- as in Dubya's case early on. I don't think many of them would be as enthusiastic at this point in the game, but they rejected Gore in large numbers (Gore won the election, but it was still a cliffhanger) and Kerry, too, and one common theme was voters' preference for "regular," "ordinary" Dubya over two egg-head smarty-pants liberals.

Edwards has the smarts and the gumption and is blessed with a common touch, too. I would say that given voters' traditional anti-intellectual bias, combined with their occasional support for an FDR or an RFK, yes -- they are looking for someone like that.