Why is Joe Biden so bad at running for President?
I’m seriously asking. Does anyone have any insights as to why Biden is so terrible at winning the Democratic Party’s nominating contest?
I haven’t given it much thought, but my gut tells me that he is aloof, too impressed with his own strengths and too dismissive of his own weaknesses.
Biden is a textbook example of the Dunning Kruger effect.
If you’ll recall, the initial experiments that established the pattern gave subjects a test on some subject and afterwards asked them how they thought they did. Those who scored in the bottom 25% on aggregate thought they scored in the top 33%. Perhaps not so coincidentally, in his 1988 meltdown Biden claimed he finished in the top third of his law school class, when he actually finishing in the bottom quarter.
So, first of all, he thinks he’s smarter than he is.
Secondly, he’s got a temper that he goes to great pains to hide, but it comes out when people — for example, voters on the campaign trail — ask him tough questions. That’s why he blows up and tells such people to go vote for someone else. That might work at home, where he never faced more than token opposition, but it won’t fly with a less supine electorate, and no electorate is more supine than Delaware’s, so he’s always surprised to find that not everyone believe’s every bull turd that escapes his lips.
He’s an unlikeable guy’s idea of a likeable guy.
Hope that helps.
“He’s an unlikeable guy’s idea of a likeable guy.”
nailed it.
I agree with Alby. I also think that he has declined somewhat in his intellectual and rhetorical acuity. He doesn’t seem very energetic, not like the levels he used to display. I think if he were the nominee even Donald Trump would outpace him now.