🧩 BND Motif Index · M1753
Popular when not running
A politician is liked from a distance and loses that goodwill once she runs: popular out of the race, unwanted in it, and the more voters see of her as a candidate the less they want her.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Politician Archetypes🗂️ Horserace
- 3claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 4right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Electability
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 1 center, 4 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Told on both sides 3
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-10-24 “Hillary Clinton is only popular when she is not running for office.” 2
- 2026-10-24 “Hillary Clinton is popular only when she is not running for office.” 2
- 2026-10-09 “Kamala Harris is a uniquely awful candidate whose media appearances are detrimental to her campaign.” 5
M1753 · first seen 2026-11-09 · last 2026-11-10 · what this is · how the index works