[BlackAdderess]

Because he has successfully run a large government for a number of years. The three first term senators have nothing close to the experience needed to do the job. What have they run? An office with a generous taxpayer funded allowance? We live in a world where news travels fast and so the relevant experience is even more important because there is very little breathing room to rearrange things if you make the wrong call.

[SoConPubbie]

Because he has successfully run a large government for a number of years. The three first term senators have nothing close to the experience needed to do the job. What have they run? An office with a generous taxpayer funded allowance? We live in a world where news travels fast and so the relevant experience is even more important because there is very little breathing room to rearrange things if you make the wrong call.

So, how do you explain Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and the absolute failures they were then?

How would you factor in that many Presidents did not have "Executive" experience before becoming POTUS and actually did a good job?