The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(11-07-2020, 08:52 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Updated scores in my revised horoscope scoring system regarding the earlier post:

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; updated score is 3-17).

candidate scores:

Eisenhower 17-10
Nixon 19-6
Reagan 23-3
Bush41 15-5
Bush43 19-2
Trump 9-4

JFK 13-4
Carter 13-5
Bill Clinton 25-2
Barack Obama 18-3
Joe Biden 16-6

Ford 13-7
Dole 12-18
McCain 13-12
Romney 4-10

Stevenson 5-19
Humphrey 12-5
McGovern 9-11
Mondale 12-12
Dukakis 2-12
Gore 11-10
Kerry 7-16
Hillary Clinton 7-12

Can the Democrats pick 'em, or what? 

It's pretty weird, I must admit, how often the scores reflect their performance; how often the proportion in their vote (popular or electoral) compared to their opponents, shows the same proportion in their scores. Not perfectly all the time, but a lot of the time. How else can I explain how a madman, an incompetent, malevolent narcissist, can get 44% of the vote in Maine, 45% in New Hampshire, even 40% in Delaware, Biden's home state. Intelligent states! Trump has some kind of hypnotic, magical ability. He has marketing skill and personality; people say they like him because he tells it like it is. The dangerous and deadly policies he follows, the cruelty he dishes out, don't seem to matter to his voters. But his horoscope shows the magic. I don't mean to say it causes it, but it reflects it; it reveals it. 

I only hope this is his last campaign, and that future Republican candidates are more like Mitt Romney or John McCain. Not only more sensible, but a lot less hypnotic and magical. Mike Pence, please! I only hope the Democrats can nominate not Kamala Harris, but Mitch Landrieu, who has a score (19-2 now) like Obama and Bill Clinton had; real charm and personality; that's all that seems to count with Americans. That's what the consistent pattern of the scores show. Not just that astrology works; far more, it's what history shows. Only the magicians, the hypnotists, the charmers, the all-American personalities, can ever be elected president, or even do as well as Trump has done, despite a hornet's nest of faults. It is something amazing to ponder, and to keep in mind. Wow.

http://philosopherswheel.com/presidentialelections.html