Electability In Presidential Elections

Electability is the ability to be elected to office through some kind of vote. The basis of this ability is to exemplify the characteristics voters find appealing and relevant to the position they are running for. What are the favorable characteristics, who exemplifies them, and why does that get people elected. With those ideas in mind I want to focus on if the ideal electable character changes with age or stay constant, to do so I will look at the qualities of an elementary school election verse the current presidential election.
The first question deals with what makes a favorable character, more specifically, are there certain traits that make one candidate more electable than another. The obvious answer deals with the candidate’s ideals and perspective on
Each voter wants to see their beliefs mimicked in the candidate that would potentially have the power to make them laws. If their ideals match, and the voter feels that a certain candidate has a similar perspective, they overlook their other qualities that are not as electable. Take for example Donald Trump’s electability, people would think he would immediately be pushed out of the race by more formal candidates, but instead he is the favorite to win the republican nomination. But why? It could be an issue with our brains and reasoning skills. Dan Kahan, in his study for the Cultural Cognition Project, found that people’s political beliefs can disrupt their ability to properly process data contrary to their ideas. He says, “ICT sees the public’s otherwise intact capacity to comprehend decision-relevant science as disabled by cultural and political conflict.”(Kahan 2-3). In what he calls the Identity-protective Cognition Theory (ITC) someone's ideals and political beliefs are shaped, not by factual data, but cultural and social identity. The easiest example of this concept is someone who identifies as a republican having to vote for a republican despite