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Tuesday, December 27

I Voted stickers lined up for those who came in during midterm elections voting in Precinct 1/1 at Whitehall Elementary School in Anderson, in Upstate of South Carolina Tuesday, November 8, 2022.

What's on voters' presidential wish list?

The leadership style, age, gender, experience and where their ideal candidate would call home, revealed in the latest exclusive poll.

What do Americans wish for in a president? We can't order up the perfect candidate, OnPolitics readers, but our latest exclusive poll shares what voters wish for in an ideal Commander in Chief.

Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page writes: What if you could pick a president to order?

Let's stipulate at the start that you can't, that the choice in the 2024 election will be among actual human beings, not some ideal drawn in the abstract.

That said, Americans in the USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll did express preferences about the characteristics they found appealing in a president and the ones they said didn't matter. In all that may be guideposts and red flags for the real people who will run or are thinking about it.

🗳️ What voters want: Leadership style, experience with business or military?

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