CNN Poll: Likability helps Obama survive brutal weEK

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4. There's also the possibility that some of us are reacting to the 100% negative characterizations

that we see so often, here and elsewhere.

Absolutes elicit skepticism in me and I'd bet I'm not the only one who reacts to that kind of very likely faulty logic.

Yes, I like PO, but reality is more important to me, so when I see so many absolutely negative advocates, representing ALL things in a single manner: bad, liar, negative, out-to-betray you/me, a sell-out, power hungry, autocrat, hypocrite, elitist, and on and on and on and on . . . I cannot help but think to myself that all of that unequivocally negative absoluteness is, intentionally or otherwise, mistaken. Reality is not like that, so my reaction is to try to restore balance in my perceptions of the truth = I see mostly negative, so I react with openness toward positive possibilities.

It's not about the fact that I like the guy, but more about the necessity of avoiding extreme mistakes or outright lies in how the facts are characterized. The more absolutely negative the information I see around, here and elsewhere, the more I question it, because I know there are rational positives that are possible, just likely being ignored for motives that have to do with something other than the ongoing development of valid and reliable perceptions of a reality that is both negative and positive.