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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
Let's make a list of past POTUS'es since the end of WWII and how much prior experience they had before the job and how thier presidential ratings were when they left office.
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So you want to make a subjective list of attributes (because you'll have to make arbitrary decisions on how to "combine" experience - all governors together? All congressmen? What about people who did both? What about 1940 versus 1840?) and then look for correlation with a temporal poll that serves as a singular and poor stand-in for performance?
Not to mention the sample-size issues, since we haven't exactly had approval ratings dating back to the XYZ Affair.
My point was that we can't "prove" that one set of experiential attributes is best - it would be impossible. Instead, I want to know what's important to us individually - what you think is best, since you can't "know" for certain.