(03-14-2019, 11:10 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(03-14-2019, 10:09 PM)mikesez Wrote: Those are prescriptive policy positions. And they're good ones.
But the infographic was listing attitudes and outlooks, not "what would you do if we put you in charge?"
the makers of the infographic clearly think that attitude and outlook are better predictors of how people will vote. You might think the people vote based on "what does the person promise to do with power, is it similar to what I would do or not?"
That might be how you vote.
That is how I vote most of the time.
I think people like us are honestly less than a third of all Americans and we all want different things from each other anyway.
The majority of voters in both parties are just "attitude and Outlook" types.

Track record is more important than what they promise. Most politicians fail to keep more than half their promises.

Trump had no track record. Based on his previous support for the Dems I suspected he wouldn't be as conservative in office as he claimed in his campaign. But compared to Hillary, who has a very negative track record, I much preferred the unknown political novice.

So far Trump has a good record of at least trying to keep his campaign promises. Unfortunately, he did not campaign on massive spending cuts, but we have had significant regulatory reform, and tax cuts targeting growth in manufacturing in the USA, both of which were in his campaign. His judicial appointments are more conservative (strict Constitutionalist) than I would have hoped to see by any Pub candidate. And he hasn't sold the farm to any foreign countries yet, unlike Obama, Bush, and Clinton.

it's perfectly rational to look both at their track record and what they promise to do.
You sound like a perfectly rational voter, as does flsportsgod, and I'd like to think that I am one, too.
But I don't think most people are like any of us.
My point has most people vote irrationally. they may try and pretend their vote is rational, but they decided how they felt about the candidates well before they vocalized a reason for feeling that way.

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