What a candidate says during a campaign, and how he says it, offers important information for voters.

But is that the only thing we ought to weigh when choosing who to vote for? After all, we aren’t electing an agenda. We’re electing a person.

The League of Women Voters offers some good advice on how to judge candidates. It says voters should consider both “the positions they take on issues and the leadership qualities and experience that they would bring to the office.”

Its number one suggestion? “Look at the candidates’ background and experience” to see how prepared they are for the job.

OK, let’s look at Graham Platner’s, starting with education.

Platner, who doesn’t have any sort of degree, would be the least educated senator in years if he wins next year’s race in Maine.

In the U.S. Senate, only one of 100 members lacks at least a bachelor’s degree. But even Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma has an associate’s degree. Seventy-nine sitting senators have graduate degrees.

It’s been at least 15 years since there’s been a U.S. senator who didn’t finish college.

I’ll readily accept that there are some self-educated people who have a surprisingly solid grasp on everything from history to astronomy. But, instead of yammering on Reddit, they worked at it.

It’s not as if Platner didn’t have the opportunity to get a higher-level education. He attended Connecticut’s elite Hotchkiss School and eventually wound up at the private John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, where his classmates voted him “Most Likely to Start a Revolution.”

I’m not about to fault the guy for joining the Marines instead of going to college. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine did the same thing.

Though both men suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after seeing too much combat, Golden went on to earn a degree from Bates while Platner became a bartender and, as far as I can see, an internet troll. One can sympathize with such an outcome without seeing a need to reward him with one of the nation’s highest offices.

I’ve yet to see that Platner has the breadth of knowledge required for effective political leadership. He needs to know what it takes to turn dreams into laws and programs.

Can he build a coalition to deliver a better health care system? We don’t know. Nor do we know how he would attempt to block President Trump from causing greater mayhem.

I presume he’s a good harbormaster or we’d have heard from disgruntled boaters in Sullivan. He must be a decent oyster farmer, too. All I know for sure about Platner, though, is that if he comes to your wedding, you want to make sure someone is keeping an eye on him.