09-20-2020, 05:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-20-2020, 06:00 PM by Eric the Green.)
(09-20-2020, 04:58 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I am not saying the unraveling Republican presidents met my approval. I just think they had a better ear to the American people. We were in a selfish racist sexist time frame, and got the government we deserved.
Largely true. The Republicans also got lucky in 1980, gaining the services of a great communicator for the 1980 election for their corporate agenda (who scores 22-6 on my system). We got into the frame we did partly because he was able to deceive people that his neo-liberal trickle-down economics worked, although it did not. Even today a bare majority subscribe to Reaganomics. Partly that also consists of the welfare scapegoating dog whistle of the sort that the closet-racist Classic Xers like.
But the salesmanship and skill of the candidate (as opposed to the president) matters. That is why I am concerned about a future Kamala Harris nomination (score 4-16, you recall).
Eisenhower 18-8
Nixon 18-7
Reagan 22-6
Bush 14-6
Bush 17-2
Trump 9-4
JFK 13-6
Carter 12-4
Bill Clinton 21-3
Barack Obama 19-2
Ford 12-8
Dole 12-19
McCain 15-13
Romney 4-10
Stevenson 5-21
Humphrey 9-5
McGovern 9-10
Mondale 12-12
Dukakis 2-10
Gore 10-9
Kerry 8-12
Hillary Clinton 9-11
Can the Democrats pick 'em, or what?
