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Responsible and has a contrast that will at least appeal to the 55% or maybe more of americans who will be unhappy -- are unhappy already with the trump presidency -- i live in the district in northern virginia that had a female republican representative. we have a democrat who beat the republican this fall. she won a tough primary, actually, a democratic primary. i dont recall anyone talking about either the republican or the democrat not being likable. other virginia congressional races went t...

Credentials and her own experience. >> mike, sit tight. let me come back to the panel for a moment. as you heard mike mention, she is positioning herself as leader of the pack, being more grassroots and in opposition to president trump even though she did not mention the president by name. lets go for a few tweets now with regard to this whole likability question. i know we never talk he twoots. never, ever. might as well. how elizabeth warren avoid a clinton redux, written off as too unlikable ...

>> katie: that doesnt matter. >> marie: it does matter. historically, it has mattered. >> katie: it is going to be difficult for democrats who argue against everyday people who are seeing their lives getting better, and the argument that $1,000 or $2,000 isnt benefiting you really isnt going to fly. it is actually very offensive to people who think that that is a significant amount of money because it is. when it comes to how democrats approach this and his approval numbers, you dont have to lik...

Personality. hes a celebrity. so i think people started to focus on trumps likability but not to the same extent as they have on hillary clintons likability. is chris christie likable? there are a ton of people within the republican primary where you could say are they likable? is jeb bush likable? he said stuff happens in reaction to a very tragic mass murder in this country. this likability thing has been really pushed and i think it is part of what is hurting hillary because its become this n...

Give more women time off for maternity leave, for example. and i took no time at all for any of my kids. but i think that there are people who say there are structural things in place, not necessarily fixes that women need to do themselves or in addition to those things women can do to help themselves, structurally there are things that could change to make the work place more equitable so that women could rise to the top of the hierarchy. however you feel, its a great book. >> i think practical...

The president is likeable and a couple good jobs report will help him. it is night ratight race and pel decide on who they think will be a better leader in that regard going forward. >> weve never seen a differential this large between the likability of the president and unlikebility of underwater numbers for romney. never seen a major party nominee as unliked as romney is. so this is a huge differential between these. i want to throw in another statistic. in last five elections, gallup says the...

Im sure the democrats are going to play those clips over and over and over again. to counteract that hes got to go one way or the other. either really work on the likability thing or come out with proposals that are likable and specific. >> well, respectfully i dont know if theyre going to play them over and over again if todays any indication. he keeps giving them new material. >> thats true. >> eugene robinson, thank you for your time tonight. have a great weekend. >> you, too, al. coming up...

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Administration has been trying to play it -- or the campaign has been trying to play it into a likability thing. but i think at the end of the day its going to be the economy, not dogs. >> maybe it will raise the level of conversation where people are talking more about pet adoption, going to your kennels, that kind of stuff. jackie, john, doug, thanks to all of you. take a look at this, amazing live pictures at the smithsonians national air and space museum in virginia. its a ceremony to welc...

To them. romney has to do more about that. no doubt about that. dont get me wrong on the likability thing. its not like hes, you know, clearing out the decks with that but hes begun to sort of humanize himself, put himself in personal settings where voters begin to see him and his family in that kind context as the first family. and understand and appreciate their story. that can help, i think, down the road with him because there is this sort of stilted kind of formal corporate image he has tha...