Vote with your head. Vote for the candidate with the highest unfavorables in entire race -- WTF
Have had some discussions but still waiting for a single Hillary Supporter to help me understand the following. Understand this is not a comparison to Bernie's elect ability issues. Just as the following should be clear, Bernie has his own vulnerabilities to Republican attack. I am not here to debate whether he is a good candidate or not. This post is just about the Hillary supporter claims that she is a good candidate and one of my deepest problems with Hillary is that her ambition and style of politics forced all others out of the race when we might have had someone closer to Bernie's politics but without the label of social democrat.
What I would like some Hillary supporter to directly address is the following. How:
1. A candidate with the highest unfavorables amongst all (both Democratic and Republican) candidates is a highly electable candidate understanding the historical correlation between electability and unfavorable ratings.
2. A candidate who has already lost a Democratic party primary which she was an overwhelming favorite to win can generate any excitement within the Democratic Party. Regardless of whether she holds on to become the candidate or not, it should be clear even for the most partisan Hillary supporter that significant portions of the Democratic Party coalition do not like or want her. She is hated by the Republican party, inspires no independants and causes no excitement in half of the Democratic Party.
Her use of the head and heart is to say the head demands the best candidate to defend against the Republicans or to obtain half full glasses. It is not saying anything positive about chasing our ideals which would be the heart. There is really no other interpretation of her claim.
However if the head was talking to a candidate who had the above characteristics would it not say to withdraw from the race or to have made the initial decision NOT to run. It is only Hillary's heart not her head that told her to run. Her heart wanted to satisfy its ambition rather then provide the Democratic Party with the best candidate to keep the Republican Party from office.
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It explains why surveys asking questions about abstract concpts (like "Favorability) have no predictability in terms of the actions (like voting) that people will perform.
The best predictors for how people will act (eg., vote), are questions asking them about how they will vote.
The reason you want to focus on abstract concepts like favorability is because the better predictors of behavior (voting) do not come out the way you want.
