Colin McEnroe Show: How Personality Influences Politics
What personality type is best in a world of jabs and oneupmanship?
Published: Aug 02, 2010
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Colin McEnroe Show: How Personality Influences Politics
One one the frequently repeated lines of the 2000 and 2004 presidential races was that George W. Bush was the kind of guy voters could imagine having a beer with. Which was an odd thing to say because Bush was, by his own description, a recovering alcoholic. He wasn't having beers with anybody.
What people meant was that Bush seemed capable of some kind of normal human interaction that they could imagine and recognize. People vote for people they like. You could say that Al Gore lost Florida by several hundred beers and not be wrong.
But what do we mean by "like?"
We like somebody who connects. And we connect with somebody whose personal style mirrors our own. So how does that work in the context of Connecticut's heated political scrums? We asked personality expert Paul Tieger to analyze the Myers-Briggs types of the candidates.
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