Excellent statement about the "likeability problem." Boston Globe.

[LAS14]

Sorry everyone. Someone reported that the link was broken, and when I went back to look at the article I got an error. Dunno what happened. If anyone else can get at it, please post.


We need to combat this awful bias with facts, facts, facts. They're nicely summarized at the beginning of this article. But read the whole thing!

[lapfog_1]

1. This election is not going to be about facts

We now live in a fact free America.

I watched an Interview with NEWT about crime statistics and he basically told the interviewer that the facts about major crimes (and all crimes) going down over the last nearly 30 years and CONTINUING to decline under Obama have nothing to do with peoples feelings that crime is up (doesn't help that we have a mass shooting every other day that gets national news attention).

Its a feeling that people have, damn the facts.

We need to start fighting this fight by changing the narrative and showing other peoples "feelings" that things are going well and we need to elect more Democrats.

[Chimichurri]

2. Link is broken

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. Excellent article.