The researchers' unavoidable and unpalatable conclusion is that old-fashioned jealousy led the women to discriminate against pretty candidates.So should attractive women simply attach photos that make them look dowdy?
"You've got nine pretty serious candidates with no incentive to get out," Mr. Cook said.
The Montana race was, from its beginning, a profoundly strange event, featuring two pretty loopy candidates.
And once you've conceded that much, it's not a particularly long leap to suggesting that our hypothetical A's — "young, healthy, and rich," with a lot to offer to their hypothetical offspring — are pretty good candidates to accept the obligation.
"I have seen the problems in some of these primaries where we've knocked off some pretty good candidates and it resulted in nothing for us — like Lugar," said Mel Sembler, a Florida real estate developer and former ambassador who helps Crossroads raise money.
Both were pretty popular candidates and it showed in voter eligible population turnout during years 2004 (62.1percentt), 2008 (63.7percentt), and 2012 (60percentt).
"What has happened is there are some pretty weak candidates and, in Kansas, there's a viable Independent running.
The questionnaire is pretty extensive – candidates need to fill in their age, dress size, the sports they play, what music they like, list their physical preferences in a partner, the things they'd never do and how long they last, among other questions.
The reality is that there is a pretty good candidate for such a substance: testosterone.
"If you want to manage Washington, he'd be a pretty good candidate," Mr. Gingrich said.
