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vulgarweed ([personal profile] vulgarweed) wrote2008-02-16 03:57 pm
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Are you feeling sinister?

Here's an interesting US politics trivia trend:

Did you know that George W. Bush is the first right-handed US President since Jimmy Carter? (Carter's immediate predecessor Gerald Ford was left-handed as well.)

And that in the 1992 race, all three main competitors--George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot--were left-handed?

If the 2008 race shakes out to be Barack Obama vs. John McCain (which certainly seems to be the way it's going), the next President will be left-handed, either way.

Only somewhere between 10 and 15% of the general population is left-handed. (I'm not, I just find this interesting.) Let the conspiracy theories begin! (or, y'know, not).

[identity profile] semyaza.livejournal.com 2008-02-16 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the testosterone. ;~)

[identity profile] vulgarweed.livejournal.com 2008-02-16 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That's one theory. :) (Herbert Hoover? Testosterone? I'd've expected, say, Teddy Roosevelt to have been one.)

[identity profile] semyaza.livejournal.com 2008-02-16 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww. Poor Teddy! :D