[plushaye]

Likeability continues to be a huge problem with Kerry IMHO.

From the article: "Likability will be most important with these late deciders, and that could swing the election," Glad said.

[Voltage]

I get it! If the Dems had just nominated a more likable leftist.....wonder if Gus Hall is still kicking?

[JRandomFreeper]

Swing voters don't like Sen. John Kerry much

Just breaking... water is wet, fire burns, and the fools finger goes wabbling back to the fire...

/john

[Free ThinkerNY]

What personality?

[RatSlayer]

"...even though virtually every poll shows that a solid majority disapproves of Bush's handling of the Iraq war... "


Typically jounalistic crap. All the polls I've seen on Iraq have been between 45% and 55% but somehow this is a "solid majority" to the jerk that wrote this article.

[snooker]

Personally I think it's Kerry's missing character that people don't like. After all, what's a gigolo if it's not someone with no character.

[JohnnyZ]

Some political analysts think simple likability is the Democratic nominee's greatest challenge as the presidential campaign enters its two-month stretch run.

Maybe he should try snowboarding again. Or hunting. Or falling off his $5000 European bicycle. THEN people will like him!

As a last resort Kerry could always remind people that he served in Vietnam ...

[Inyokern]

Question: Who would you most trust to walk your dog?

A) John Kerry

B) Bill Clinton

C) A hungry North Korean

[Doomonyou]

Most people don't care to hang out with a pompous ass.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Likeability continues to be a huge problem with Kerry IMHO.

I agree. Likeability is a first cut proxy for trust. Clinton was likeable (for a while) and got elected, even though he turned out to be a hollow sociopath unworthy of trust. Bush is likeable and real. You may not agree with him, but what you see is pretty much what you get. Kerry is a dork and a chameleon.

Who would you want at your back in a world where mass kidnappings of children occur and airplanes fly into skyscrapers?

If you were really undecided, it is (or ought to be) a no-brainer.

[austingirl]

I couldn't bear to listen to that droning, condescending voice for four years.

[Natural Law]

It doesn't take 7 paragraphs to say "He is an a--hole"

[Mr. Keys]

He was liked...before he wasn't liked.

[NYCVirago]

The Democrat's advisers say they don't believe there's a personality gap, citing polls of the broader electorate that show Kerry equal with Bush in personal favorability ratings. "I think that's a problem that is an invention of elites," said Mark Mellman, Kerry's pollster. He said the president had an "innate advantage" on specific personality attributes because he was "the better and more deeply known person."

I don't think seeing more of Kerry will make people like him more. If that were the case, Kerry should be soaring in personal likeability ratings, not sinking, like he is now.

[albertp]

Likeability???

Hanoi Candidate Kerry is a thin-skinned blue-blood crybaby with a low pain threshold who demands aristocratic immunity from criticism and so may not be able to withstand the heat of the political war that is going to be waged between now and November 2. God forbid that such a "sensitive" girlie-man should become President of the United States! Let's hear it for a more sensitive war on terrorism!!!

[okie01]

This phenomenon persists even though virtually every poll shows that a solid majority disapproves of Bush's handling of the Iraq war and the economy. Most voters also think the country is headed in the wrong direction.

But they don't much like John Kerry.

Thereby saying to left what they want most to hear: it's not our winning politics that are at fault, it's our loser of a candidate!.

More Kool-aid, please...

[coconutt2000]

Personality isn't Kerry's biggest problem... It is a lack of character.

Personality grows outward from a person's character, and the void in Kerry's character results in a vacant and uninspiring personality.

[sonofatpatcher2]

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[Quix]

Besides all that,

he's a lying, duplicitous, traitorous, conceited, arrogant, Communist-global-government-of-tyranny supporter; idiot, calloused, Machiavellian dork affixed compulsively to mama's sugar tit and purse.

[John Thornton]

"We're not hiring a bartender, we're hiring the leader of the free world,"

How'd then did Clinton win?

[GreenHornet]

Kerry's biggest problem is name recognition - too many people know who he is.