Reply #6: Those who know how to do battle are scuffed up - therefore ineligible.

[Waiting For Everyman]

I suppose the next best thing is to have a campaign manager who can fight and knows the score. But that isn't really something that can be learned second-hand very well, or quickly. That is, except for a professional actor, and there have been a few. Sports starts possibly, but they tend to be ignorant.

The best you can do is a clean competitive "golden kid" who has won everything all their lives but has a liberal conscience. FDR, JFK. They both were "overcomers" so that might have helped.