Don't be smarmy.

That's my suggestion about the "likeability" question.


https://www.vox.com/2019/7/23/20699724/likability-gender-new-hampshire-poll-warren-harris


Be as straighforward and genuine about individual issues as about larger issues.  Don't be maudlin or revert to age-inappropriate girlishness as the result of perceived pressure to be "likeable."

Be a good listener.  That means keeping your mouth shut and looking right at the person who is talking until the person is done, trying to avoid too many nods or nonverbal, audible reactions.  You can interrupt if the person becomes offensive.

The media's ability to predict who's going to be elected President is far from infallible.  That's probably because the media is at least 20 or 30 years behind the times, being inextricably enmeshed with the entertainment industry.

There are a lot of female doctors, lawyers, managers and other female professionals now; there have been for several decades.  The public is more used to that than the media realizes.

The first thing that anyone needs to do to be "likeable" is to be trustworthy.  That's not a gendered quality.  The best personality in the world can't substitute for the lack of that quality, and you have to have the worst personality in the world to offset it enough to alienate everyone.

The article is mostly about Senator Warren and Senator Harris.

I have already said what I have to say about Senator Harris.

My primary feelings about Senator Warren by now are disappointment and impatience.  She is doing nothing to stop the sexual assaults being inflicted on me and a lot of other unsuspecting, Massachusetts residents by hidden, illegal cameras every day.