October 16, 2006
The beautification of the Democratic Party.
Democrats seem to be fielding an uncommonly high number of uncommonly good-looking candidates... Democratic operatives do not publicly say that they went out of their way this year to recruit candidates with a high hotness quotient.
The crop of eye-pleasing pols has party operatives calculating the politics of beauty. "There's a fine line, and you can't cross it," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Voters don't like men who look like pretty boys or women who resemble bimbos.
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People respond well to attractive people. Have since time immemorial. I've heard it said that that was no small factor in the masses' preference for Richard I over his brother John. There have also been studies about Presidential candidates and their aristocratic genes.
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What, no pictures?
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*whistles appreciatively*
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Put your eyes back in your head, bees.
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As you can see, John was far more pixellated than his brother.
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Well, running Treebeard didn't work...