> I have always wondered why citizens expect politicians to be 'moral' and whether 'immoral' politicians are necessarily bad leader I think its the need to rel

> I have always wondered why citizens expect politicians to be 'moral' and whether 'immoral' politicians are necessarily bad leader I think its the need to relate it to something easier to understand. Policy positions can be complex and subtle, but for a lot of people, "don't cheat on your wife/husband" is an absolute and a convenient/simple (albeit horribly inaccurate) metric.