Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. ↗
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates. ↗
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception. ↗
Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in. ↗
It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him. ↗
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other. ↗
We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks. ↗
