Posted on 11/02/2012 8:45:18 PM PDT by SmithL
Results from an online survey posted on Scripps websites (including knoxnews.com) suggests people seek leadership, honesty, judgment and fairness in their next president but don't see either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama strongly possessing all of those traits.
Voters think character is an important determinant in selecting political candidates, according to polls cited by Neal H. Mayerson, whose non-profit Cincinnati-based VIA Institute on Character designed the online survey that was placed on several Scripps websites in recent weeks.
The nonscientific survey asked respondents to identify the top character traits they sought in the next president from a list of 24. It then asked them to identify the two candidates' top character traits.
Mayerson said 80 percent of respondents listed "leadership" as a trait they'd like to see in a chief executive. Seventy-five percent listed "honesty," while 53 percent chose "judgment" and 40 percent named "fairness."
"Across all respondents and within all sub-samples, Mitt Romney is seen by more people (in this survey) as possessing leadership than is President Obama," Mayerson said in analyzing the responses.
Similarly, survey respondents indicated Obama possesses more of the fourth-most important character trait -- fairness. Thirty-nine percent identified it as a core character trait found in the president while only 17 percent found Romney possesses the quality.
(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...
people seek leadership, honesty, judgment and fairness in their next presidentand it turns out, people form their opinion of the candidate they won't support in the first place from attack ads from the Demagogic Party.
I must have missed some...
Wow. I learn something new every time I come here.
LOL. I have to admit I saw that word today for the very first time ever in an article (I think) on American Thinker. It’s a gem, isn’t it? Can’t believe I’ve never run across it before.
Ugly, thin-skinned, childish, immature, self important...
Wow. I learn something new every time I come here.
Blame Douglas Hackleman, posting yesterday on American Thinker:
From among the many Obama tergiversations and reversals that could be provided on subjects great and small, one "evolution" in particular begs scrutiny. This example is sort of a twofer, because embedded in the videos that reveal this unusually venal flip-flop is an especially vile prevarication -- a lie which illustrates that the campaign for president by the first-term senator from Illinois was far more about the audacity of Obama than the audacity of hope.
Well, there's an old sysadmin password I used to use back in the eighties: tplsawp2s. It was derived from an utterance by the 18th Secretary of Agriculture.
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