i think there is something likability may be related to, and that is the length of time a person or his party controlled the white house. this is obama ae first term. i think there a tendency and some political scientists to back this up, there a tendency to like an incumbent more in the first term and party s first term and to not want it give up on that incumbent or that party. george bush senior 1992 was a likeable guy but 12 rules of republican rule and you had high unem plo ununemployment, economic anxiety, and it was just, let s just give up. here, it s only been four years, one term, and clear likability. so a t is worth a pointer there two, people who don t want to give up this soon. well, there is something to