Full Idea
Probably Humphrey could not care less whether someone else, no matter how much resembling him, would have been victorious in another possible world. Thus Lewis's view seems even more bizarre that the usual transworld identification it replaces.
Clarification
Humphrey lost an election to be U.S. President
Gist of Idea
Counterpart theory is bizarre, as no one cares what happens to a mere counterpart
Source
comment on David Lewis (Counterpart theory and Quant. Modal Logic [1968]) by Saul A. Kripke - Naming and Necessity notes and addenda note 13
Book Reference
Kripke,Saul: 'Naming and Necessity' [Blackwell 1980], p.45
A Reaction
I begin to see this as a devastating reply to a theory I previously found quite congenial.
Related Idea
Idea 11979 It doesn't take the whole of a possible Humphrey to win the election [Lewis]