Every election I can remember, the more charismatic person won except the last one: Reagan over Carter/Mondale, Bush over Dukakis, Clinton over Bush/Dole, Bush over Gore/Kerry, Obama over McCain/Romney, Trump over Hillary. Only exception was Biden over Trump, and there were serious irregularities around it.
Forget politics, and just ask yourself if there's ever been a bigger gap in charisma/personability than in this election. Then consider the economy which just massively revised down its jobs report for the last year, with inflation crushing the ever-shrinking middle class.
The fundamentals are terrible for the democrats. The indicators (polls/betting markets) say otherwise, but in an era of so much manipulation and fraud, fundamentals > indicators IMO.
How do you quantify charisma?
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You only need to quantify things that are close calls. These are not.
Thinking of the low charisma Bush v Gore election.
ha -- one of the lowest
Probably lowest charisma score since Ford v Carter.
This is a good question. A survey on people liking/not liking them maybe?
+5 charisma
+2 Strength
-5 Agility
Wait, I wanna start my character over.