Americans want strong leader, fidelity, drugs less an issue: poll - Yahoo! News

Americans want strong leader, fidelity, drugs less an issue: poll - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON (AFP) - Most Americans want their next president to be strong, decisive and of good moral character, but fewer seem to care if he or she has been unfaithful to their spouse, or even tried drugs. ADVERTISEMENT A Gallup poll released on Thursday showed that while Republicans and Democrats are essentially looking for the same qualities in the next president of the United States, they differ on some important issues. Some 77 percent of the 1,006 people polled across the country said the next president must be a strong and decisive leader, although only 34 percent said the next incumbent must have experience of government. But where the two camps divided was on personal qualities. Only 37 percent in total said it was 'absolutely essential' that the next US leader has been a faithful spouse -- but broken down along party lines the figure was 52 percent among Republicans and only 25 percent among Democrats."