Which candidate do YOU find more likable?

[senseandsensibility]

Poll question: Which candidate do YOU find more likable?

There is no right or wrong answer to this one. It's obviously subjective. But I just thought it might be interesting to compare DUers' impressions to those of the general public. Also, whether we like it or not, likability has some connection to electability. We can't completely ignore it as a factor.

Feel free to explain your vote without bashing the other candidate, if possible.:)

[saltpoint]

1. Prefer all of our original 8 to any of their original 13-14.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Yes, Dems are always more likable

IMHO!

[saltpoint]

9. And we're a lot better in the sack, too.

[DFW]

5. Yeah, that too for sure!

[DFW]

2. I can't help you there

I've met them both and like them both. I flipped the coin, and it landed on the edge.

[DJ13]

3. This aint gonna end well

:popcorn:

[senseandsensibility]

7. We shall see.

I still have faith in DUers to defend their candidate without slamming the other. Then again, I still think we'll win 2008.:)

[DFW]

10. Just wait

When one gives in, he or she will throw full support behind the other,
and it'll be a love fest that'll make McCain humping Bush in 2004 seem
like a get-acquainted dance at a Madrassa.

It may or may not be enough to heal the wounds, and it may or may not
be sincere, but it'll happen, live and in color. You heard it here first.

[RememberWellstone]

6. Although liking won't help

at this point, it will have to be who is more electable, to me.

[senseandsensibility]

8. But don't you agree that likability

and electability are connected?

[Saturday]

11. No, the general public does not find Hillary

as unlikable as the Obama supporters here at DU. I could have told you that without doing a poll.

[Terran]

17. 60% find her untrustworthy

I guess you're right, that's not quite as bad as here at DU.

[Saturday]

18. I didn't know untrustworthy and unlikable were synonyms. nt

[QC]

12. What if we don't find either one particularly likeable? n/t

[Aloha Spirit]

16. you're vote doesnt count ;-)

[QC]

19. Oh well, being a Florida Democrat has made me used to that. LOL! n/t

[frogcycle]

13. really don't like either one

I wish they would both just go away and let a qualified person take over.

[senseandsensibility]

14. Are you really that negative about BOTH ot them?

I have to admit that neither was my first choice. But I don't think that they're both unqualified.

[frogcycle]

33. they are both adequately qualified

I guess I should have said "more" qualified

Both are smart, seem to have generally the right attitude toward ideals I consider important. Both would do the job "just fine."

Were it not for our idiotic "toxic" system, though, we would have selected Gore by acclamation a long time ago. And he is head and shoulders above either of them when it comes to "qualified." So is Biden.

Ah well...


c'est la vie

[jesus_of_suburbia]

23. I firmly believe they are BOTH qualified...

I think this primary season of 2008 is an embarassment of richs:

1) Edwards

2) Obama

3) Clinton


I love all three of them.

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. So do I. But their huge egos won't allow that to happen.

x(

[tridim]

15. I used to like the Clintons..

Until they went batshit crazy early in 2008.

[Citizen_Penn]

20. Aside from her politic tactics and lapses in accuracy

at a gut level - she annoys me.

Reminds me of a prissy school teacher who thought she was funny, but wasn't. Thought she was bright than the average bear, but wasn't.

Thought she was popular, isn't.

Thought she had a chance in winning, doesn't.

She's completely out of touch with reality - and seems alittle Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford sometimes with those raised eyebrows - like she's insane.

Not the image I want to see in my President.

We've had eight years of a dancing bear - why do we need a wild hyena to replace him?

[Forkboy]

21. Obama, but it's irrelevant as I'd happily vote for a bastard if he was able to turn this ship around

[jesus_of_suburbia]

22. I like them both. I think I'd rather play basketball with Obama, and drink with Senator Clinton.

I think I would like the company of either of them. I just don't know if Senator Clinton could shoot hoops as well as Senator Obama :-)

[LWolf]

24. Other:

They both score "zero" on my likability meter.

I liked Biden, although I disagreed with him on several issues.

The same for Richardson.

I found Edwards likable, even though I disagreed with him all the way through November of '04.

I more than like DK.

I like Cindy Sheehan.

I like Cynthia McKinney.

I like Shirley Golub.

I like Al Gore; I always have, even though he's more centrist than I.

I find that I like a huge, eclectic variety of people.

Obama and Clinton are not a part of that mix.

[Orsino]

25. I'm not sure how to separate likeability from the rest of the package...

...knowing what I know about the candidates. I think they're both very likeable, but I think I give the edge to Obama.

[VotesForWomen]

26. Cinton; i don't like being preached to by O and his minions. nt

[Citizen_Penn]

28. I'm no minion, madam

This woman thinks for herself.

And that is not a sermon, merely a statement of fact.

I'd find your likeability vote for Clinton more credible if it was accompanied by a reason to like her.

[RichardRay]

27. I used to be a whitewater raft guide...

doing four day, three night camp trips on the Rogue River in southern Oregon.

I'd enjoy having either of them on a trip.

Senator Obama would be more likely to do goofy things and would jump in to take care of tough chores like firewood gathering and getting fresh water from a hard to reach spring. I figure he's show up at the put in with his bag already packed with exactly the right stuff. He'd probably be a demon at river games like hunkerhousen.

Senator Clinton would have her own map and guidebook for the river, would have read Zane Gray's story about the Rogue, would organize everybody on the trip to hike back up Solitude Riffle and swim down on life jackets and would probably bring her own first aid kit adequate to perform open heart surgery.

Niether of them would know a damn thing about rigging a boat and they'd both be terrible in a paddle boat crew, unless they were front left in the stroke position :-).

[senseandsensibility]

31. Wow.

I have to smile at all the details in your response. All I can say is, I hope you're right, because they both sound great.

[RichardRay]

32. What speech is your sig line from?

I'm gonna steal it (not for my sig here, I like the giant catapault thing).

[senseandsensibility]

34. State of the Union Message in 1861

He also used very similar language during his 1850 campaign when speaking before workers. Feel free to use it. The more exposure the better! I have to admit to knowing no Latin, so I need a translation for your sig line, I'm afraid.:blush:

[RichardRay]

35. Just a little piece of wisdom I picked up from the Jesuits...

I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.

Another DU'er uses

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Although I think the idiom for 'woodchuck' is questionable. :-)

Other useful Latin phrases

[senseandsensibility]

37. LOL

I wouldn't give up either of those sig lines either.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Neither.

[Raine]

36. I voted Obama cause you just listed the two but

but out of the whole bunch I found Gravel the most likable cause he always said exactly what he was thinking. :-)

[senseandsensibility]

38. That was likable

about him. And Richardson was also very likable. I think I left all of them out because they have no chance of winning now. Between Obama and Clinton, we may need to consider likability as just one of the factors necessary to win the General. I have to admit that I'm a little surprised by the results so far.

[featherman]

39. Easy question. Should be posed versus McCain in "all voter" polls though