(Yesterday 09:39 AM)CliftonAve2 Wrote:  

(Yesterday 08:39 AM)miko33 Wrote:  It was major rebuke of Trump - zero doubts about it. So much so that people elected real door knobs into office. LOL, they're going to have to check the water coolers in Amy Acton's offices as OH governor to ensure they're not filled with vodka. We're at the point where the ideas are way more important than the party - so long as the politician is willing to push the idea over party dynamics. As voters, we should automatically call out and ridicule any politician who espouses party loyalty and actively uses the party to punish people. Party politics is what's killing the country. It's all about game theory.

I was having a spirited discussion a month ago with a family member who is a college-educated liberal white woman. I asked her what policies Acton espoused that she liked and all she could give me was the platitudes like Kindness, Empathy and Hope. When I asked for more specifics, she could not articulate anything other than saying she was a female and a doctor. This family member is not the only one who feels that way- I think for somewhere to 30-40% of the voters in this country, these emotions and feelings are all they need, evidence to the contrary be damned.

I think you'd be more spot on if you said 60-80% of voters (30-40 per side). You can pull up some videos of interviews at rallies for both sides and really cringe.