For President, what’s more important?

Any election is, at its core, a popularity contest. It’s important that a candidate is popular enough to win, but hopefully the reason they win is because they are capable of doing the job.

The nominee has to be the best qualified person who is popular.

He won more of the “popularity contests” when you break it down by state, just not overall.

I agree. I would vote for a candidate who I didn't necessarily care for their personality if I thought they would be good for the country. A president needs to be able to work with the senate and congress, no matter the party. But there are things about personality that I cannot overlook. A bully who calls all of his opponents nasty names on a daily basis is not something I can overlook.

I heard that at the convention, several speakers talked about the Republican party will unify the country. How do you unify anything when all you do is resort to bullying and name calling? I remember during Covid when Trump would make comments about not wanting to talk to governors of blue states, that he made Mike do that. I never in my adult life ever heard a president refer so often to blue states and red states. I don't think Biden ever has, at least not that I have heard. That is so far from being unifying. 

Honestly, it's both.

Apparently the answer to that is fluid. I feel qualifications & experience are important but shit happens

A few years ago I’d have said experience to get the job done. But at that point we weren’t facing the alternate option with a manifesto that closely resembles mein Kampf. We hadn’t had multiple SCOTUS nominations stolen. SCOTUS didn’t appear to be off the rails totally biased. I didn’t know SCOTUS justices had been for sale, bought & paid for and their votes already decided. I didn’t know random untrue cases could be brought to SCOTUS simply to undue a previous ruling. I didn’t know that checks & balances had been thrown out the window. I didn’t know we were doomed even though it had been pointed out multiple times.

I need a QUALIFIED candidate that CAN win. Too much is at stake. I personally can not survive more Trump judges. Period. I will vote for the person who is not Trump, but is on the ballot in enough states to have the possibility of winning ( aka not Kennedy ) whether I feel they are fully qualified or not. That being said, Trump is SO unfit to be POTUS that the bar for qualifications is pretty low so I doubt that will be an issue for me.

I personally feel Harris is qualified & experienced. I have zero issues voting for her. I’ll be pleased to vote for her. If the convention gives me another choice I’ll vote for that choice even if I doubt their qualifications, but like I said in comparison the bar for qualifications is so low right now that I can’t see that becoming an issue for me. A cardboard box has more qualifications at this point.

I do not feel comfortable that my fellow Americans can come to the same conclusion. I’m deeply concerned.