re: #330 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Gore and Kerry were just not likable people, and that was visible in the way that negative statements stuck to them. The GOP tried the same approach with Obama, but he is to most people (except the most irascible bigots) a genuinely affable and admirable person, and the mud just slid right off him…

Don’t forget that Gore ran from Clinton. That sealed the deal. A monumentally stupid move.