If a president is too smart, people are intimidated and distrustful. They want to feel as if the president is an average Joe, and not somebody better than themselves. Thus, people are able to forgive W for being ignorant about world politics. I think they might have a harder time if he quoted the great classics every time he gave a speach.

Personally, I would go for smart, but didn't the popular kids always get more votes in grade school? I went to seven different schools and only saw an overlap between the two groups about 1/4 of the time, although the smart popular kids usually purposely acted dumb. Coincidence?

-Biscuits