From Kevin Drum, my favorite politics blogger since Calpundit…
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015From Kevin Drum, my favorite politics blogger since Calpundit days: How Honest Is Your Favorite Candidate?
I have a few special awards to hand out, as well as a couple of comments:
- Cheers to Bernie Sanders, the only candidate with not a single Pants On Fire rating.
- Jeers to Donald Trump, who failed to earn a single True rating.
- Double jeers to Ben Carson, who remarkably failed to get a single True rating or a single Mostly True rating.
- The average Democratic rating is 3.34. The average Republican rating is 2.26.
- Among Republicans, honesty is the exact inverse of popularity. Jeb Bush is the most honest, and he’s got the lowest poll numbers among the serious candidates. Donald Trump and Ben Carson are the least honest by quite a bit, and they’re also leading the field by quite a bit. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are in the middle on both honesty and popularity.
I especially draw your attention to the last bullet. It’s eerie. It’s almost as if the Republican electorate wants to be lied to, and the more you lie, the more they like you. I’ll hold off on guessing precisely what this means, but it might explain a lot about this year’s GOP primary race.
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