What Voters Want - and Don't Want - in a Presidential Candidate

[progressoid]

Forget for a moment the names and biographies of the ever-growing array of 2016 White House hopefuls in favor of this question: What kinds of candidates are Americans ready to embrace?
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Here's how that math works: Our NBC/Wall Street Journal pollsters asked whether specific candidate traits would make a respondent "enthusiastic," "comfortable," "have reservations" or "uncomfortable."

By subtracting the positive responses from the negative ones, we can get a pretty good picture of what the most acceptable and unacceptable traits might be for a presidential candidate.









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http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/what-americans-want-dont-want-presidential-candidate-n354141

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I'd be more impressed if they didn't lump 'comfortable' and 'enthusiastic'. nt

[NYC_SKP]

2. It's a push poll, looking mostly at demographic details and not policy positions.

With just a few exceptions, like Tea Party and evangelical Christian.

I'd like to see one on issues:

Supports an increased minimum wage.
Supports a stronger military.
Supports marriage equality.
Supports stronger borders.

^^^ these are issues and policy questions that we need to be discussing.

[progressoid]

5. That was my first impression as well.

However, it's amazing how many people vote based on superficial issues.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Yeah, that's frightening.

I'm hoping for a six foot man over 70 with crazy hair.

[Exilednight]

7. The elected experience question, in my opinion, is probably

The question that holds any weight. The rest has little to do with government functioning.

[okaawhatever]

3. Okay so Scott Walker is an evangelical Christian with no college degree and some could argue a

leader of the Tea Party movement. With the Koch brothers 900 million campaign donation I wonder if all that will really matter?

[99Forever]

4. Funny.

I don't see honesty on those graphs.

Gee, I woner why?








Not.

[TM99]

8. Well, hell, this might be tough.

We need to find a Democratic candidate who is a female bi-racial Hispanic African American under the age of 50 who has military experience, has been a governor and a senator, but must be both a Catholic AND a lesbian, and it would help if she has a family member who was once a President.