likability

If there's one thing we've learned from the last six years, it's that likability is a dangerous yardstick to use when choosing a president.

What's Not to Like? 2007

"likability" is presumed to be based on niceness, self-effacement, and sociability, and has nothing to do with intellect; and you're right that Frost wasn't

Brian Hall - An interview with author 2010

Cain's oratorical gifts, and his extraordinary "likability" -- two factors that also strongly favor Obama, despite his declining "favorability" -- are huge assets in a GOP field that's already forced other compelling figures, among them Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, to withdraw.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Is There More to Herman Cain Than Meets the Eye? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

Cain's oratorical gifts, and his extraordinary "likability" -- two factors that also strongly favor Obama, despite his declining "favorability" -- are huge assets in a GOP field that's already forced other compelling figures, among them Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, to withdraw.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Is There More to Herman Cain Than Meets the Eye? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

Cain's oratorical gifts, and his extraordinary "likability" -- two factors that also strongly favor Obama, despite his declining "favorability" -- are huge assets in a GOP field that's already forced other compelling figures, among them Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, to withdraw.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Is There More to Herman Cain Than Meets the Eye? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

Cain's oratorical gifts, and his extraordinary "likability" -- two factors that also strongly favor Obama, despite his declining "favorability" -- are huge assets in a GOP field that's already forced other compelling figures, among them Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, to withdraw.

Stewart J. Lawrence: Is There More to Herman Cain Than Meets the Eye? Stewart J. Lawrence 2011

And now she's known as tough, but her likability is a real problem for her.

CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2007 2007

She has what "Newsweek" magazine has called a likability gap, if you believe "Newsweek".

CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2007 2007

And now she's known as tough, but her likability is a real problem for her.

CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2007 2007

Once in public, though, he demurs - as if upholding some unspoken bargain with white America to never look like an angry black man in exchange for continued off-the-charts "likability" ratings and a shot at reelection in 2012.

Obama, the Great Placator, needs to throw some elbows Courtland Milloy 2010