**** Elections thread *****

[a500lbgorilla]

Yeah I'm not meaning they're picking people without a high school education but that being at the top end of the scale tends to be a bad thing. There's an idea that you want the smartest people running the show but in practise that's shown not to be true. How many (phd) doctors have been president? It's surprisingly low IIRC.

None of them campaign well.

[Savy]

None of them campaign well.

I don't know the history well enough to comment but that seems slightly dismissive.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_by_education

I'm sure that list is probably slightly swayed by the fact education over time has become more of a thing but lots of not graduating & what not amongst relatively recent presidents.

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None of the examples I cited had experience, and likely would not have been elected in the UK at least. That's what I'm getting at. We don't have any wrestler or actor MPs, for example. All of Reagan, Ventura and Schwartzenegger were elected governor with no experience in public office at all.

We have tonnes of MPs with no prior experience who also aren't famous. Look at the huge rise of the SNP & some of the people they ran and won with.

I'm pretty sure we've had actors as MPs too.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenda...litical_career

Also the house of lords is full people who are famous.

[Poopadoop]

Ok my bad.

House of Lords are appointed, though I suppose that's even worse.

[a500lbgorilla]

I don't know the history well enough to comment but that seems slightly dismissive.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_by_education

I'm sure that list is probably slightly swayed by the fact education over time has become more of a thing but lots of not graduating & what not amongst relatively recent presidents.

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Dismissive a bit, but, you do need to campaign well to win an election. And education doesn't make a candidate, it's just a line on their resume.