Sorry, but whatever proportion of the population that is true of, it is not true of me. I would support anyone whose policies I thought would make me freer, which is why I gave money to Rand Paul.Pointedstick wrote: All we have to go on is perceived character, and specifically, how these people make us feel. It's a total myth that we care about policy--even educated people like most of us. We really don't care at all. We support the person who gives us a personal warm fuzzy feeling or a fire in our bellies. Once you feel that, it's hard to let go of it or satisfactorily articulate just why you like that person. The same is true in reverse. I just don't like Hillary Clinton and I can't really tell you why. And if you don't feel anything for anyone, then you'll ignore them all, irrespective of whose policies might potentially help you if they could be faithfully rendered into law (and usually they can't anyway).
Unfortunately, there is no one left in this race that matches that description, so I have to go with the least bad option.
That's why I crossed over and voted for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.
Does he give me the warm fuzzies? No. But he is much less horrifying than Hitlary.
But in partial support of your thesis, it is true that I despise Hitlary, and not only because I despise her policies (although I do). It is because she is a vile, wretched person who has done absolutely nothing good and many things evil.