Actually, that is why the major parties in the USA often pick totally unexciting milquetoast individuals as their candidate for president. They don't dare to try running anyone who is controversial in any sense or outspoken or anything like that....some people might not like him/her! ;-) This results in some truly mediocre candidates for president, and you can only watch and wonder, "What were they thinking?" as they run some personality-less schmuck who is so totally lacking in charisma that a dog wouldn't vote for him.