I think it is like 7/2 that he would retweet a professionally mocked up poll copied to his account if he sees it before his staff could vet it.
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http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2021078,00.html
“Before the television debates most Americans didn’t even see the candidates — they read about them, they saw photos of them,” he told TIME. “This allowed the public to judge candidates on a completely different basis.” It’s a reality that continues to influence campaigns today. “When parties are considering their candidates they ask: Who would look better on TV? Who comes across better? Who can debate better?” Sabato says. “This has been taken into the calculus.”
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Good looking people tend to win, especially if there is a wide gap between the two. There are also other subtle things that are done, such as on height (something that will for sure be used against Mayor Pete if he gets the nom vs. Trump). Obama is probably the best looking guy to ever be president.
In 1988, George Bush made a point of always standing next to Dukakis to show how much taller he was. The tank thing made Dukakis look like a child playing army because of his size. They’re basically taught to play up these advantages, and people said JFK won more easily because of how much better looking he was than Nixon (citation needed).
Carter seems to be a very obvious exception to this, but those were special times, similar to how Nixon got in.
Yeah I know how badly that debate went for Nixon, although people seem to point out that it was because he just looked sweaty and pale and gross in general, partly because he eschewed stage makeup. Not sure if it’s strictly an innate attractiveness gap in that case.
I think that was one of the first ones where TV was used in a significant way and this country is madly superficial. I don’t think FDR would have been as successful if people could actually see him on a day to day basis back then.
I’m not really buying the whole ‘stage makeup’ angle. You still sweat in the makeup, and yes, back then the lights were crazy hot.
Yes, but did you add the 10 points to all of these? Maybe more?
Way worth it imo
Are you making a Trump joke a la ‘My approval ratings are at 51%, but they would be at 90% if it wasn’t for the stupid Dumocrats fake news WITCH HUNT!’?
The post you responded to was about impeachment.
Yesterday, I guess we had a 53 poll, and a lot of people say add 10 points to anything. Anybody voting for Trump, you can add — anytime you get a poll, you can add 10 points or 7 points or 6 points. Take it any way you want. But I don’t know if I consider that to be a compliment, but in one way it is a compliment.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-conference-3/
I guess I mis-remembered the “maybe more.”
Two key Trump sayings, ‘perhaps’, and whenever he screws up he just says ‘and’ to correct it when he’s speaking help with any parody.
Example would be: Michelle Jordan and Michael Jordan
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What legislative agenda? USMCA is only thing discussed in six months.
Michael Dukakis
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Ok but we’ll need to Mod everybody and suit up like Gerard Butler because it’s going to be Thermopylae around here for a few days for the existing 300 users.
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Yea that’s the joke, I pulled it from some dems twitter saying the same thing.
Great headline by the hill though lol
Voicemail of Rudy accidentally calling a reporter and saying “we need a few hundred thousand.” These people, man.
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Man, I need clients who will pay me money to file stuff like this.
Yeah I was thinking everyone would need to be deputized. 