bq. Rightwing candidates are better looking than their leftwing counterparts, something they benefit from during elections, according to a study conducted by Swedish and Finnish economists.
The story is “here”:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110223/od_afp/finlandswedenpoliticsvotescienceoffbeat_20110223122246, and I thank Daniel Lippman for the pointer. “But we knew this”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/06/the_hobbesian_world_of_democra.html. A gated link to this path-breaking research is “here”:http://www.jstor.org/pss/419771. Thanks, Lee.