(07-11-2024, 08:17 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-10-2024, 04:37 PM)mikesez Wrote: You have that precisely backwards.
In 2016 I said Trump wasn't electable and any other Republican could beat Hillary but not him.
I was wrong.
Trump is electable, doesn't matter who you ask.
He's still not qualified though, not in my mind.

And we are all irrational buffoons in the mind of at least one other person.

And that's why you're wrong, you don't even understand your own position. Trump's policies are great, you don't like him personally. So in your mind he's NOT electable because of his personality not his obvious qualifications. No one thinks you're right about that, but it is what it is.

Words mean things.

"Qualified" is a personal, subjective assessment of a person based only on their own skills, history, personality, and experiences.  Almost none of it is quantifiable.

"Electable" is a personal assessment of a candidate based on how you think others will vote.  It is based mostly on polls, and also campaign budgets. Therefore it's partially quantifiable, and a lot of it is objective rather than subjective.

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