JD Vance's favorability likened to 'herpes' in brutal poll analysis

Women like North Carolina Lt. Gov Mark Robinson — the gubernatorial candidate recently linked to boasts of an affair with his wife's sister on a porn site — more than former President Donald Trump's own supporters like running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), a new analysis contends.

The Bulwark Wednesday heaped scorn on Vance over recently released Harvard Youth Poll data that found he is only viewed favorably by 18 percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 30.

Editor Johnathan V. Last contrasted this data to an Elon University poll that found 27 percent of North Carolina women view Robinson favorably.

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"The guy who says the Holocaust was overblown and Hitler was great, who wants to own slaves, who was a frequenter of backroom porn video booths, and who bragged about banging his wife’s sister . . . That guy was able to get to 27 percent favorable with women in North Carolina," wrote Last.

"But JD Vance is stuck at 18 percent among people who are basically his same age."

The Harvard poll also put Trump's favorability rating at 31 percent and Vance's unfavorability rating 46 percent, data show.

According to Last's analysis, this means that "almost half the people who like Donald Trump don’t like JD Vance."

Last explained this phenomena by likening Vance to a notorious pro-wrestler named Sean "X-Pac" Waltman who drew a specific type of response (or heat) from the audience.

While all wrestlers seek to elicit heat — be it cheers for the "faces" or boos for the "heels" — another kind of reaction is less desirable, and it's called "X-Pac heat."

"This is when the audience boos and insults the wrestler not just because they are a heel and they hate the gimmick," explains The Sportster. "They boo because they hate the wrestler unrelated to the character or gimmick they are portraying."

It's also reportedly called "Go Away Heat," and was expressed by a pro-wrestling fan's sign that read, "Sir! I feel compelled to stress that we are not booing because of your effective heel work, we are booing because you are simply awful."

This is the sentiment Last argued Americans hold for Vance.

"This Harvard poll did not test favorability ratings for the Taliban, or Vladimir Putin, or herpes," Last wrote. "If they had, I’m sure all three would have been less popular than JD Vance.

"But not by much."