re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White

There’s that, but I feel like Clinton is unique among modern Presidential candidates in the sheer number of people who think it’s a matter of concern whether or not they ‘liked’ Hillary Clinton. In a low-turnout year, with the margin down to 77,784 votes out of 13,000,000 in 3 states, EVERYTHING MATTERED, so the constant barrage of “I’ll hold my nose and vote for her, but I don’t like her” from so many people likely had some effect on both depressing turnout and on driving people to vote for Stein or McMullin or Johnson, to avoid having to vote for Clinton.

I don’t see these same people complaining about any of Clinton’s policies, or her work ethic, or her qualifications, but they all feel that we need to know they didn’t ‘like’ her.

So much of the problem is that our national dialogue has been twisted by decades of treating candidates as contestants in a popularity contest that we’ve become unable to disassociate the politician as a person from their candidacy for the job. People hear “I don’t like Hillary” and assume that means you hated her as a candidate, thus you voted for her for less than honorable reasons.