Surprised curmudgeon hasn’t been used yet because it fits perfectly: a bad-tempered person, especially an old one. And frankly Jane does nothing to ameliorate those characteristics.
I would not be so negative.
In a crowded field the split on votes entre Warren, Klobuchar, Harris, Gillibrand made this dfficult. Plus some non gendered errors in positioning. Had the Dem field not been so absurdly and ridiculously over-crowded then I think it could have turned out different.
And yes, Big Stage Personlity, the Presidential Campaign is partly show business or some rougth equivalent. One can pine away for some abstract intellectualization of the political process, but real world it’s going to be the case.
Hate Trump as much as one wants, while he’s grossly incompetent in all things management, policy, etc. he has a natural cunning for the Big Stage.
(Well aware Hillary has a totally different rep re In Person and working for her. But she also never, ever in her entire public Big Stage Career ever showed much comfort, even as a man I doubt she would have been a successful presidential candidate. Not a good fit to her naturally. Contrast with Harris who seems to me much more naturally comfortable for example (naturally comfortable doesn’t preclude errors of course))
Clinton. By far.
Warren suffered from a different dynamic of a crowded field. And as the data quoted at 538 shows, while with the votes being split she didn’t win, she’s not disliked.
Clinton was so unable to rally the troops that Bernie Democratic Socialist Not Even Party Member Sanders had a solid run at her.
Fabulous! Perfect! I’m going to Bookmark it. I should add McSweeney’s is published here where I live in SF, so how could this writer I and not share the same POV
Comparatively in 2016, Trump ended up by a coin flip less disliked in some specific electoral geographies, so yes, in specific places.
In the end it is a popularity contest because that is how a large portion of the voting public votes.
Likely, by the same number Jill Stein or Ralph Nader’s numbers would have risen in years past.
At that point, the vote’s not about this years contest, or picking a possible winning opponent to current occupant.
Bernie won’t win Michigan this year as he narrowly did last time. It will be interesting to hear the excuses after his loss.
As a country which clearly gives so much consideration to personalities, likeability and appearance factors I’d say we’re in trouble. We have two old white men running against a slightly less old but incompetent white man. I’d blame it on 24/7 media, Fox, MSNBC but they’re just a small part of the problem since their aim is to approach presidential campaigns as horse races as are polling websites such as fivethirtyeight.com
This shit is only slightly less childish than an MMA weigh-in. 
Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said. “The problem for the Sanders campaign is not the staging of the debate, but rather, the weakness of Sen. Sanders’ record and ideas.”
It is for some voters.
Not all voters.
OT: Just going to leave this here. Doing my utmost not to snark on poor Ted. I wonder who and how many others he’s interacted with since CPAC.
HAHAHA.
I wonder if Ted ever smoked.
My first vote was for JFK (versus Nixon) and there was a hint of the popularity contest about it.
I dunno. I always liked Hillary Clinton as a person and I always thought she was a good public servant. I’m sorry she absorbed so much of the hatred for Bill Clinton’s fuck ups, but I don’t think that was her fault. I voted for her twice and if she was running again today I’d vote for her a third time-although at this point, it would probably be a fuck you vote.
Oh, now he wants the process driven by facts and medical science. Still biting my tongue. Grrr…
Can he make it two weeks, a month? Just to be sure.
You hit the nail on the head. The sins of the husband visited her.
Well, yes. She was somehow to blame for his sins.