Sure, I totally get it that you as a GOP voter can prefer some other Republican for president over JDV. No issue with that. What I don’t get is why he’d be viewed *unfavorably* by alleged independents. What did he do to deserve that? He seems like a decent guy, family man, Marine, someone who pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. Why the hate? Is it mere fallout from having been bashed as some kind of “weirdo” by Tim Walz and then that theme being picked up and amplified by the MSM?
You don't understand? It's not hard. First, if your a Republican, you will get unremitting bad press, and constantly made to look bad.
But, since the time of Reagan, Republican candidates seem to go out of their way to not make themselves look unlikable. I don't know what it is, but it's pretty consistent. And all somehow, all the good things they have done/or good facets to their personality, they will never push that through to the media. Everything that might make them appeal to independents, they keep hidden. I don't understand why, but they keep doing it.
“What I don’t get is why he’d be viewed *unfavorably* by alleged independents.”
I believe it’s common knowledge that pollsters generally under-sample GOP voters. Knowing this helps make a little more sense to me.