Endorsements and Custom Characters

Hello, this is my first ever post on this forum, so hi. I'm a brit but I have a great love for american politics. I would just like to say how much I enjoy this game but I think there are some minor issues I need help with. Firstly I find it very hard to win more endorsements than  my opponent even if I have several more outreach centre. This means if Im a democrat I tend to lose endorsements such as the support of the NAACP even when I'm playing with Obama with seems very strange. Also I find it annoying how custom characters are limted to only a small amounts of points to spend on stamina and other traits. I understand that the game has to be balanced but I find it impossible to beat the likes of Romney and Trump whose stats are a lot higher than mine, is there any way I could change this. Anyway thank you for reading and sorry if I have made any game or technical errors.