What Makes Politicians Popular?

A good smile seems to help:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-the-lif...

Above-average looks seem to help too:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764216676249

Just sayin'.

They literally never give up. No matter how unqualified, no matter how many stupid clips of them surface online, no matter how many times they get dragged through the mud. And a lot of people admire that.