I agree that appearance (including height) is germane to politics.
Someone should tell Abrams campaigning for a job she won’t get makes her look bad.
Charisma is way more important than appearance. Bald can be beautiful on the right person.
What I like most about Duckworth is not that she’s a veteran; it’s that she’s a tenacious fighter. Sure, the Republicans will try to Swiftboat her, but unlike Kerry, she’ll fight back against it.
Kerry is probably the most underrated candidate ever. He came within a few thousand votes in Ohio (despite the marriage amendment on the ballot) of winning a race against an incumbent president who had an approval rating above 50 percent. That’s actually pretty amazing.
Maybe relevant to the conversation, maybe not.
I don’t know why I thought that in a typical election year (outside of today’s COVID-19 “new normal”) a Presidential candidate would’ve already selected his/her running mate long ago (prior to mid-May), and that at this point Biden is just leaving us twisting in the wind and keeping us in suspense, just to goof on us. Turns out - not surprisingly - that I’m an idiot.
I thought this might be worth sharing, that apparently (even in “normal” times) a VP running-mate doesn’t typically get named until 60 - 90 days from now. Lots of Julys and Augusts listed in here, so I guess I’ve been breathlessly refreshing the news sites for no reason these last several weeks.
https://www.thoughtco.com/when-are-presidential-running-mates-chosen-3367681
Not sure how many (like me) totally had their timelines screwed up, and might find this as interesting as I did. For 90% of you, I’ll grant you that this is “old news”, but it answered a question I had nonetheless. 