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In reply to the discussion: I'll tell you in 1 word why I won't vote for Hillary [View all]dawg
(10,610 posts)The American electorate hates liberals. They've had that drilled into them for fifty years.
But 90% of them don't really understand the policy issues that liberals and conservatives argue about. On issue after issue, the American people support liberal positions, just not liberal politicians.
Sadly, they mostly just want to vote for a tall, rich, white, straight, Christian man with a happy-looking family. Rather than learn all the details of the issues, they take the easy way out, and vote for the kind of guy they trust. And that is the kind of guy they trust and feel confident with.
We have to burn through those prejudices. But it is a serious mistake to think the electorate is conservative on the issues, when, actually, they vote more on their "gut feel" than anything.
We need to find a way of giving them a better "gut feel" about us, without compromising any of our principles in the process.