Poll: Character trumps policy for voters

[Kadie]

Poll: Character trumps policy for voters
By RON FOURNIER and TREVOR TOMPSON, Associated Press Writers
13 minutes ago


WASHINGTON - For all the policy blueprints churned out by presidential campaigns, there is this indisputable fact: People care less about issues than they do about a candidate's character.

A new Associated Press-Ipsos poll says 55 percent of those surveyed consider honesty, integrity and other values of character the most important qualities they look for in a presidential candidate.

Just one-third look first to candidates' stances on issues; even fewer focus foremost on leadership traits, experience or intelligence.

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The findings are consistent with an AP-Ipsos poll from September 2004, when 38 percent of voters chose honesty as the most important quality when picking a president. That was more than any other factor.

At the time of that survey, a majority of voters found Bush to be honest.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_el_pr/ap_poll2008_traits_1

[AX10]

1. kick

[sallyseven]

2. I don't know Trevor Thompson but Ron Fournier

is not a favorite of mine. Most AP writers have a decided rightward slant to their articles. I for one am sick of their taking things out of context and only printing half of what is true. Just give us the news and what is true and let us make up our own minds.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Experience has taught me

that you need to look at a person's record to decide if they are honest or not. There's nothing in Bush's past history that would have ever led me to believe he would be an honest effective leader.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Gee I wonder why that is?

It couldn't be the deliberate obsession by the media on the superficial and the deliberate supression by the media of any substantive discussion of issues, could it?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Too true. As, H.L. Mencken said...

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken

[skipos]

6. Makes sense to me. That's why we don't want Dame Rudy to get the nomination

WE know he is a turd, we know he is a flip flopping opportinist, but most Americans will think he is a "hero of 9-11" and want to vote for him. Most Americans are against the war in Iraq, yet a warmonger like Giuliani is polling better than most candidates on both sides. Why? Because he is a "hero" and MSM will never say otherwise.

We do not want Dame Rudy to be the nominee. Multiple Choice Mitt or Newt Gingrich are my picks for the easiest to beat.