Why do people stick up for their political candidates no matter what?

[The Man]

It happens in all parties, people vote for a candidate, they get elected and do a horrible job, but the people who voted for the candidate stick up for them no matter what, blind to the wrong they have done.

Why is that?

 

[Fisher]

I think the GOP fairly well turned on Bush. I suspect that dems will Obama in the end.

 

[Velvet Elvis]

It happens in all parties, people vote for a candidate, they get elected and do a horrible job, but the people who voted for the candidate stick up for them no matter what, blind to the wrong they have done.

Why is that?

 

[Jango]

It happens in all parties, people vote for a candidate, they get elected and do a horrible job, but the people who voted for the candidate stick up for them no matter what, blind to the wrong they have done.

Why is that?

For a lot of reasons.

I just call them shills.

 

[csbrown28]

If you want to understand why people cling to ideas and beliefs, this is one of the best video series I've seen to explain it.

 

[ksu_aviator]

Because they attach the virtue of their ideology to the virtue of the candidate.

 

[Masada]

No it's simple. It's called "egoism". It's a plague in our society. Everybody's "hard", everybody's opinion is the best one. "My congressman is good, but no one else's is". Etc etc.