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   Hillary Clinton. Barbara Mikulski. Dianne Feinstein. Nancy   
   Pelosi. Samantha Power. Janet Reno. Donna Shalala**. Debbie   
   Wasserman Schultz. Barbara Boxer. What do all of these women   
   have in common? They are Democrats. And they are butt ugly. Mere   
   statistics alone would suggest if you got a dozen or so Democrat   
   women politicians together there would be some glimmer of   
   attractiveness, no matter how dim, somewhere. But you would be   
   wrong. However, now, thanks to SCIENCE, we know why:   
      
   Research has found that being attractive influences many things   
   in a person’s life — their salary, their popularity and grades   
   in school, even the prison sentences they receive. So why not   
   their politics?   
      
   A recently published study in the Journal of Public Economics   
   concludes that the attractiveness of a candidate does correlate   
   with their politics. They find that politicians on the right are   
   more good looking in Europe, the United States and Australia.   
      
   The study shows correlation, not causation, but the researchers   
   float a simple economic explanation for why this might happen.   
   Numerous studies have shown that good-looking people are likely   
   to earn more, and that people who earn more are typically more   
   opposed to redistributive policies, like the progressive taxes   
   and welfare programs favored by the left.   
      
   The researchers also offer a more general psychological   
   explanation for the trend: That good-looking people are often   
   treated better than others, and thus see the world as a more   
   just place. Past studies have found that the more attractive   
   people believe themselves to be, the lower their preference for   
   egalitarianism, a value typically associated with the political   
   left.   
      
   And this might be the first time the “Hot-Or-Not” method has   
   been used to develop data for an article in a peer reviewed   
   journal   
      
   In their first experiment, the researchers showed respondents   
   photographs of political candidates in Finnish municipal and   
   parliamentary elections, members of the European Parliament,   
   U.S. candidates for Senate and governor, and candidates for   
   Australia’s House of Representatives. They asked participants to   
   rate the photographs on a five-point scale. The results   
   suggested that politicians on the right are more beautiful on   
   all three continents.   
      
   Nothing is 100%, of course. And always remember, that we are   
   speaking in relative terms because politics is Hollywood for   
   ugly people. Though I focus on women (not being gay I feel more   
   comfortable with making judgments of attractiveness on the   
   opposite sex, though even if I were gay there is nothing wrong   
   with that), the rule applies to men, too. Al “Rubber Face”   
   Franken, One-eyed Harry Reid. Anthony “Weiner” Weiner, are all   
   proof that the rule transcends sex.   
      
   **I date the beginning of my decline from having perfect vision   
   to the day in 1997 when I encountered Donna Shalala in tennis   
   whites in Montrose Park in Washington, DC.   
      
   https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/01/11/science.-democrat-   
   women-tend-butt-ugly   
       
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)