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l as though that one restriction of nobody in your residence except the residents for a month and we'd be pretty well done. I feel like now you wouldn't get rid of the infection but you might get it down to a low level. Now does anybody disagree with that? Because it's something like over 50 percent of infections. It's worse in the winter when you're indoors. Somebody says I thought we did that. N…
← Previous segment →sarily means as much as you might think it would mean. It could mean that he's just less controversial so the others have some specific reasons you're mad at them. But I can't think of a specific reason to be mad at Kevin McCarthy, can you? I can't think of a like a scandal or was he on the wrong side of something? I know it could be that he just hasn't caused any trouble and that people respond to a specific story they remember more than they respond to the average.
So here are the numbers. So Kevin McCarthy if you add his two favorable categories together 43. Compare that to McConnell at 29. It's a big difference. Compared to Pelosi at 37, surprisingly good. Schumer 32 and AOC at 34.
So if you were to look at this would you say to yourself my goodness Kevin McCarthy should run for president because he has a substantially like a 30 percent higher favorability than AOC? But it doesn't work that way because our primary system does like the exciting people, right? So I would say AOC already has enough support to win a primary. I think she already has enough support to win a primary for president someday if it doesn't change. But it certainly raises a question about Kevin McCarthy if he has bigger ambitions to run for president. That would be interesting. So I'll just put that name out there. We're all looking for our next leader and it's very interesting that he doesn't have obvious negatives.
Yeah it could be that just as the lowest profile, meaning as somebody says in the comments that just people don't know as much about him so they don't have a negative feeling so they say he's okay. It could be just that. So you have to be careful about averages if I've taught you anything. And I'll remind you this is what I call the Hollywood way of looking at favorability. And I learned this when I was doing a Dilbert TV show which never made it to the air. We did, we tried to do a live action one with real actors. The animated one did eventually get on TV. But when I was testing that we made a pilot. We brought people into a room and they have their little buttons that they push when there's something they like that's happening on the screen.
And I asked the executive what are we looking for? You know what average approval of the TV show
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would suggest it would be a hit? And the executive said we don't look at the average because that's useless, which is really interesting to know. We look at how excited some people are. What you want is that a few people, you know maybe 10 percent of the audience just thinks it's the best thing they've ever seen. You don't even care about the other 90 percent because most shows are not watched by…
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