The most important quality is that of an effective and persuasive communicator. The other almost equally important qualities are competence and perseverance.
If you can't successfully articulate your policy positions, no one will either understand or listen to your ideas. If you're perceived as intellectually inferior or incompetent, your ability to communicate is moot, as no one will care what you're saying anyways. And, if people think you might quit in the middle of the job that you're interviewing for, you probably won't get hired in the first place.
Those are the most important qualities for a successful candidate to have.
Like the current liar in chief we have right now and the incompetent but articulate Congress?/s
"The other almost equally important qualities are competence and perseverance."
Half the Country thinks she is competent because she was an effective Governor. And somehow or another she is persevering despite you and the lefts rejections and attacks. Pity for you.
"Those are the most important qualities for a successful candidate to have.
Amazingly shallow...the person you describe could easily be a petty criminal determined to destroy us...with no morals and no compass as the most important qualifications.
That’s not what I meant. Now let’s look at this carefully.
For the sake of perspective, how about we start from the opposite end, and define what is the worst quality a politician can have—that quality which perpetuates the most problematic aspect of politics?