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Originally posted by Sparhawk
Positions on issues are an important part of my selection of a candidate. But the other side of the coin is the person's qualifications. Are you college-educated? Do you plan to be? What do you plan on doing between now and 2020? Military service? Peace Corps or Americorps? Run a successful business? Public service (say, state assemblyman, congressman, senator)? These are just as important to me, if not more so, than the candidate's positions on various topics.
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This is a very stong point. As a political junkie, I have many friends who have strong, well thought out opinions on the issues of the day, many of them much more insightful than mine. However, (and this is not blowing my own horn) I have been approached about running for office(which I am not going to do) because I have gotten out into the community and done things. What would be your strategy to move yourself towards electability? This is the real bitch about politics, and the reason I will never run.