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The Hill is reporting a story that seems to define — for me, at least — just how confusing and confounding this election cycle has become.<\/p>\n

Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to enhance her likability. She’s taking selfies with voters and celebrities. Remember when Sen. Barack Obama told her during a 2008 campaign debate that “You’re likable enough, Hillary”? Apparently not this time around.<\/p>\n

She’s fighting image woes that seem to suggest she isn’t authentic, let alone likable.<\/p>\n

Do her Democratic primary voters want her to become warm and fuzzy? Do they insist that she show her grandmotherly side more often? I have no clue.<\/p>\n

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Now, for the Republicans.<\/p>\n

Likability isn’t part of the formula that’s propelled Donald J. Trump to the top of the GOP presidential candidate heap.<\/p>\n

He’s not likable. Frankly, for my taste, he’s not a lot of things: He’s not presidential; he’s not sophisticated; he’s not grounded in a philosophy other than, say, narcissism.<\/p>\n

But there he is. He’s leading South Carolina’s GOP primary polls after threatening to sue Ted Cruz over whether he’s qualified to run for office; after saying President Bush “lied” to get us into the Iraq War; after insulting candidates, a bona fide war hero, disabled people, voters, media types . . . anyone within earshot.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what this might say about any possible differences between Democratic and Republican “base” voters. I hope it doesn’t reveal that Democrats inherently are softer and that Republicans just as inherently love nastiness.<\/p>\n

But now I’m beginning to wonder.<\/p>\n

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