lefties
Posted at 8:24pm on Jun. 23, 2008 I'm sorry, but both Obama and McCain are unrepentant lefties.
Folks, this is not just an opinion.
By Mark Kilmer
Most Americans will vote for either John McCain or Barack Obama on November 4th, which means that most Americans will vote for a lefty. No matter what the rhetoric flying from either campaign, both McCain and Obama are unapologetic lefties. And this is not necessarily a bad thing.
Bear with me.
Both Presidents Reagan and Clinton were also lefties. Jimmy Carter? Aside from our current President, he was the last righty to be elected.
It is evidently true. Lefties comprise about 10% of the population, while – including the next President – 5 Presidents of seven since 1974 will have been lefties.
Researchers who have studied handedness have found links to genetics and to brain function, but there is no prevailing theory to explain the plethora of left-handed commanders in chief in recent decades.
Yet the trend is more than a statistical anomaly, a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Daniel Geschwind, said.
"It's definitely not an accident. The chance is less than one in a thousand," he said.
Before 1974, just two presidents were known definitively to be left-handed: James Garfield and Harry Truman.
I write, pitch, and bat with my right hand, so I think I'll sit this Presidential election out. Concentrate on down-ballot stuff where we have some decent right-handed candidates.
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