Hallelujah!....Kerry's "likeability" has finally been revealed!!!

[glarius]

It seems to me that the main reason Americans were in favour of Bush was because he is LIKEABLE!....The Repubs and TV talking heads have been feeding the public the line that Kerry is "unapproachable, cold, "patrician" (whatever that means).......Well, guess what....in the debates the public saw for themselves that Kerry is a warm, nice person who really cares about them.....Bush has lost his edge of "likeability"....(I have never found him likeable. I detect an inate meanness in him)....Watching the coverage today of Bush's campaigning, he seems to be getting more and more shrill......Kerry seems more and more relaxed......KERRY WILL WIN!....:loveya:

P.S...I've also found it odd that at the same time clips of Kerry interacting with crowds in a friendly manner were being shown on TV, the pundits were saying how "unlikeable" his is...

[eddiebrowns]

1. Sad state in America

when "likable"(not my view!) is more important than intelligent. Also, Kerry actually knows the meaning of the word compassionate-Bush only knows it because someone whispered it to him through his earpiece.

[txindy]

14. Good point. LOL about the earpiece!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[sangh0]

2. IMO, "likeability" is often a trailing indicator

Once people decide on somebody, they start finding them "likable".

I'm not saying Kerry isn't likable. This is more a comment on how people tend to bond with others.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. That's a really interesting notion.

It would make a nice topic to explore for a psych dissertation.

[high density]

3. Yeah, but the media is working overtime

to cherry-pick comments from "undecided" voters who feel that Bush is still more likable. After the last two wacko performances from Bush at the debates, I have no idea how anybody could "like" this guy more than Kerry.

[Eric J in MN]

4. Has the media ever said a Democratic candidate is likeable

and his Republican opponent is unlikeable/aloof/wooden?

[IronLionZion]

9. Clinton vs. Bush and Dole

Clinton was more than likeable. People worshipped that guy. Men wanted to be like him. Women wanted to sleep with him (and some did). He was like the Evil Knievel of politics.


John Fitzgerald Kennedy was also likeable way back in the day.

[Mojambo]

10. Clinton v Bush

Clinton was acknowledged as much more likeable.

And again during his re-elction. Much more likeable than Dole.

[seabeyond]

5. somehow i want to call the media on the abb issue

and that we dont like kerry, just dont want bush. i like kerry. a lot of people like kerry. we can see the honesty and integrity adn courage in the man. we like the intelligence, we like the deep thinker we like the spiritual of the man.

i am so fuckin fed up with kerry is not liked by his people. i so want a supporter of kery to be able to speak out

i am not supporting him to get bush out of office, i am supporting him, because i like what i see and am enthusiastic to see what he does as president

[IronLionZion]

7. I really like John Kerry

I didn't used to, but I do now. His life story is just amazing compared to recent presidential candidates including my hero John McCain. Say what you want about his doucheitude while campaigning, but back in the 70's he really fought the good fight to end the war. And he hasn't stopped fighting since.


I would take an intelligent guy who plays hockey and drinks real beer over a spoiled little mama's boy who was a cheerleader in school. Bush is the type of kid who would have gotten beat up regularly at a public school.


And yes, Kerry did try to connect with voters and remember their names during the debate. Kerry and the Kennedy's don't pretend to be "OF the people" but they certainly try to be "FOR the people". Bush is neither. A man of the people would not have a multi-million dollar non-working ranch and a portfolio so huge that he doesn't know that he owns a timber company.

[rocktivity]

8. People are seeing both candidates for what they are, finally

And it's clear that Bush was deceptive in calling Kerry aloof and stuffy and elitist. As Al Franken once put it, likeablity only counts when you're running for president of a frat house.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Just finished watching Kerry on C-span

It was a rally in Ohio. The last part showed him working the crowd shaking hands. He's every bit the populist * claims to be.

[txindy]

16. Did they pan the crowd?

I saw a clip in passing on the news (can't remember which one) and the crowd was HUUUUUUGE! It went on and on and on... It kind of reminded me of the sea of people you see on the Mall in a march on Washington! And, it's suddenly struck me, that's really what it was, wasn't it? The proverbial Voters' March on Washington. :toast:

[Erika]

12. Kerry Is humble.

Although born of privilege, as Bush was, he chose to defend America thru Nam and public service. Bus didn't.

[booksenkatz]

13. "Being liked" is an extremely important American trait

Remember Sally Fields' "You like me! You really like me!" at the Oscars? Sometimes I think that our cultural age level is middle school. We giggle at sex, we see every issue in black or white, reading is for geeks, and "being liked" is one of our most vaunted values.

Take my home, my money, my car, my family, but please, please, please say that you LIKE ME!!!!!!!
:puke:

[DemBones DemBones]

18. Yep, and the media are just kids writing in slam books.

Does everybody know what slam books are or did they go out of style?

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. I just finished watching "Going Upriver"

and Kerry is none of those things! He is a man who deeply cares about his Country and the people in it. Here is a man who , fought for and defended his Country, protected his men in combat, saved their lives, then came back to save even more lives by getting his Country to wake up about an immoral war. "Cold"? I don't think so!

[mellowinman]

17. All this time

I thought the pundits were calling Kerry an "unbelievably old magician." I couldn't figure out what the Hell they were talking about, but now that I see he's just an "unmistakeably gold obstetrician" I guess I can understand.

So does this mean Bush isn't a "clown phone nebular sty?"