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The Likability Factor

Calvin Trillin

June 14, 2012

“The polls agree: President Barack Obama is likable. The question is whether he’s likable enough to get re-elected.”                                                                           — Politico   It’s said, as a rule, the most likable guy Is likely the guy who’ll pull through. And, given the candidates now set to try, The Democrats hope that is true.   Though voters, polls show, think Obama is cool And Romney is colder than ice, More likable’s not an infallible tool. Remember: Dick Nixon won twice.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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