From Newsgroup: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy

So, Harry Truman sold cheap suits at a mid-west haberdashery.
Barack Obama was a community organizer.
Ronald Reagan was an actor.
Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer.
Donald Trump is a real estate broker.

Reasons to vote for the Party,not the man, or woman or whatever.

Because people with strong partisan identities respond to elections emotionally, not rationally.

"Partisans reject objective reality in order to maintain support for
rCLtheir teamrCY, in large part because werCOre hardwired to oppose what we perceive to be threatening groups of people, and itrCOs easier to believe
a comforting lie about the other side than a difficult truth about your
own (especially ones that make you angry).

So when people go into the voting booth, theyrCOre not thinking about rCLthe greater goodrCY for the nation, but for their tribe. When they see a
partisan identity next to a candidate, they assume they know all they
need to know about that candidate based on what theyrCOve told themselves about that particular identity - specifically, rCLIs it mine?rCY

- Carter Moore
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