A frank admission: Political reporters, including yours truly, absolutely cherish exit polls of voters. …
Here is one gem from the last presidential election that really surprised me. … Among the just over one in five voters who answered “cares about people like me” as their most important quality in picking a president, Obama crushed Romney by 81 percent to 18 percent. Voters saw empathy in the president but not in his challenger.
The danger for Republicans is that this compassion deficit and perceived hard-heartedness could extend to the entire party. CONT.
Mark Shields
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