bill clinton had charisma some years ago, I still didn’t fall for him. I am looking at the issues, not the slickness of the candidate.
It is generally acknowledged that Hitler was extremely charismatic. Charisma is only positive if the person’s agenda is also positive.
Of course there is good and bad charisma...Clinton and the like have the darksides charisma. I believe Romney has the good charisma just like Reagan had. A candidate needs to draw people and make them enthusiastic. Just being right on the issues isn’t enough. Dole was right on the issues but didn’t have enough projection of enthusiasm.