Reply #47: Yes And. . .

[ProfessorGAC]

. . .you're still providing nothing substantive. No, i do not think that has a huge effect. Gore could have run on a "more of the same successes" tack, and could have easily deflected the personal issues. He wasn't the one cheating on his wife, after all. That could have been taken head-on and buried quickly. That was a tactical mistake as well.

And, take a look at most psycho-social textbooks, and you'll find that people in power are very seldom broadly "liked" even when respected for their work. In fact, right here at DU a couple months back, someone linked an article in which Silverspoon's likeability could be psychosocially linked to the fact that a decent body of people don't really think he's in charge.

Those extrinsics need to come in to play. And thanks for that incredibly useful assessment of my mental state in your last post. Pretty classy.

The Professor