The difference between Republicans and Democrats

So, like any other politics nut I'm following the results of the New Hampshire primaries, and upon loading CNN's front page to see the current results, I couldn't help but notice one bullet point about the results of an exit poll, pictured at right:

• Exit polls showed issues swayed Democrats but Republicans were moved by personality.

And that, I think, is exactly the difference between Democrats and Republicans right now. Are you serious, Republicans?

I always used to pull a very neat example in Debate Team whenever someone argued that it was better to judge someone by their character and personality in elections. I would describe for them several different personalities, of which I can only remember two of now:

1. One was a womaniser, a drunkard, and adulterer.
2. One was a vegetarian, clean record, etc.

I asked them to choose which they would judge as the better candidate, using their personality guidelines. Invariably, they'd choose the clean cut vegetarian.

It was at that point I told them they had just chosen Adolf Hitler over Winston Churchill. A trap question, to be sure, but it drove the point home.