of a candidate as opposed to "are you not likable enough?"

I encourage our candidates to ignore such questions as if the reporter isnt even standing there.

Stacey Abrams: Not good enough to run in 2020 because she didn't win in Georgia. Doesn't have the charisma.

Beto O'Rourke: Most wonderful person ever! So full of charisma. He MUST be president!

I'll leave it to you to decide what the difference is between the two.

Sensible, Beto shoes



Insane Abrams shoes

and it is NOT about the shoes!

from her in the future.

in all her future endeavors.

Exactly.

it's earrings, right? Stacey wore earrings. Darn it. she had such promise too...

should any reporter ask, your question makes you a very unlikable and biased reporter. Then, include the taped incident in a campaign message. The media may play it on a gotcha loop that can work to a candidates advantage.

It should be a surrogate doing all the negative and attack responses for the media consumption. imo

So, there's absolutely no reason to fall for it again. Same trick, same parlor game that wants you to believe "Oh, I would definitely support a woman, only . . .

Not this woman.

Translation:

I would never vote for a bitch.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm a sexist who just needs an excuse to hide behind and/or a useful idiot.

Don't take the bait!

It sure seems mysogynistic to me, you almost never hear a discussion of a man’s likability outside of that aberration in the White House.

Bush was "a guy you'd want to have a beer with," Gore, not so much. Look where that got us.

Voters don't see Kerry as likable: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/may/3/20040503-125329-1073r/

For Dukakis, the challenge to be likable: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/10/02/for-dukakis-a-challenge-to-be-likable/f521be5d-9427-4dc0-bd8d-76215a104285/

Why isn't Romney likable enough? :
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/03/why-isnt-romney-likeable-enough-073913

People saying they would rather have a beer with Bush than Kerry. But even then it was not a focal point in the media for evaluation of Kerry, it was more of a thing people talked of amongst friends.

Just Google John Kerry likability 2004 and pages of major media articles will appear.

Voters don't see Kerry as likable: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/may/3/20040503-125329-1073r/

She can just get her message out there without having to listen to the 'likable' bullshit.

We want Bernie!

The "trolls" are coming to DU more and more, and they will only get worse until after the elections in 2020. Try not to feed them it only encourages them more.

They have to be "likeable", while the sack of shit who is currently squatting in that job is the most unlikeable individual to ever step foot on American soil. And, these people are fine with that. And, ffs, they're not running to be America's BFFE. They're running to be an executive. It's sad and appalling that our country has lowered itself to this kind of juvenile, stupid mentality. We're definitely in the Idiocracy, that's for sure.

homecoming queen." Shut them right down.

Don't be married, don't be single. don' have kids, don't be childless

We need a candidate who plays the XYlophone to win! (Says nobody).

Just a little genetic humor.

Why won't it ever end?

and I got a whole bunch of crap for saying it. All I can say is I told you all so.

Piss on the haters and teamsmanship.

Post mortems of the 2016 election found the tRump and Hillary were the #1 and #2 least popular nominees on record and it changed the dynamics of the race.

The right wing and their propaganda wing had vilified Hillary for over two decades.
Despite that and with election tampering both foreign and domestic she nearly won.

I would not hesitate voting for Senator Warren but of course a candidates popularity is a factor.

Dukakis, Kerry, and Kennedy were popular in Massachusetts but could never really connect with the majority of the populace.

This isn't new or always directed at women either, there was a piece on John Kerry's "likability" every damn day in 2004. Dukakis was not likable either according to the media and polling. It's the same story every time someone from Massachusetts is involved. Bill Clinton was hailed as likable, as was Obama, they tried to sell us John Edwards as the affable likeable golden boy, so likability is not always a Democrat problem either. Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor (surprise), not likable enough nationally, especially against Obama but who would be.

could never win in the South and Midwest.

The polling days beforehand election had them dead even in the likability factor, both were dismal so it cancelled each other out.

Every Massachusetts politician the last 40 years in the presidential races has had likability problems.

because Dump is so likable.

Those tags were brought to you by right-wing media dipshits and their faithful online bots. It's how they diminish formidable candidates, which Elizabeth Warren absolutely is.

I supported Hillary Clinton and I would be happy to support Senator Warren

Should be the rote reply to any pundit saying this about ANY female candidate for office!

unfortunately, not just by Republicans.

It's why I turned off all cable news almost 15 years ago -- right after they pushed the Iraq invasion.

Shit like this shows that they have only gotten worse.

no MALE freshman congressperson has EVER been admonished to sit down, shut up, and learn his job before opening his mouth.

I was thinking that, but then if it were a male? But then one of them has commanded the same kind of attention, at least that I know of.

That alone makes you "unlikeable."

This will happen with any woman candidate

who will fuel a revolution some day soon. "We're not gonna take it, no, were're not gonna take it any more."

during the 2016 election...we pay our staff to go to lunch and vote on election day if they don't vote early...and one of our guys came back and said he voted but did not vote for president because he just didn't like HRC or MF45. In Montana, that's a vote for the MF for gawd's sake. When I pressed this guy, he came back with "I don't like tRump but I really don't like her." I was so pissed! I said " You don't have to like her...you don't have to have her over for dinner...you don't have to be FB friends...One of these candidates is qualified to be president and the other one isn't".

When is this shit going to stop?

is she likable enough?

if we like someone, then she's likeable.

and do their damn jobs.

We don't give a damn whether they find her likeable. We want them to report her words, just like they report the words of male candidates.