I do not see where their thrill is coming from. He is not attractive in the least.
Sheeple are weird
These were all friends of the family. The Rep has a sort of dubious past, but then again, he is from Staten Island, where everybody has a dubious past.
I once worked with a girl from Staten Island who was always showing us pictures of stuff she had gotten for her house...things that fell off a truck...and one of my coworkers said to her, “****, Michelle, is there anything legal in your house?”
Politicians always have had groupies.