The Booker bashing is why we lose.

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117. excellent article

the OP should have linked to it as well.

Here's another one:
https://cenlamar.com/2017/01/14/if-bernie-sanders-cares-about-cheaper-drugs-he-should-stop-smearing-his-colleagues-for-rejecting-his-flawed-amendment/


Cory Booker is one of the few charismatic young Democrats out there that could turn out the voters enough to challenge Trump. Is he perfect, no? But, nobody is perfect.

But, the past 40 years have shown that the more charismatic candidate wins the presidential election:
1) Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter in 1980. Carter is smarter and far more competent, but Reagan was the Hollywood "star"
2) Reagan over Mondale in 1984. Mondale was smart, a good guy and very able. However, he got swamped by the more charismatic Republicans of the modern era.
3) In 1988, neither Bush nor Dukakis were charismatic. But, Dukakis was a real dud at the national level.
4) In 1992 and 1996, the charismatic young Bill Clinton managed to beat Bush and then Bob Dole, neither of whom had charisma
5) In 2000, Al Gore was very smart and very able, but aloof, stiff and out of touch vs the "down home" George W Bush
6) In 2004, Kerry was similar to Gore in 2000 - smart, able, but and aloof and stiff elitist vs Bush.
7) In 2008 and 2012, the charismatic young Barack Obama defeated old and stiff John McCain and the out-of-touch elitist Mitt Romney.
8) In 2016, the media loved Trump and built him up. He had that smarmy con-man charisma about him. Clinton was very smart and very capable as well, but like Gore and Kerry, she did not have that charisma.