Unfortunately, that is true. And it is a big reason why Romney and Perry are still top tier candidates.
However, I think also Herman Cain has a great likability factor with his natural congeniality. As people (particularly women voters) get to know him, I am hopeful that congeniality will overcome looks for voters so inclined to be swayed by what's on the cover.
There is something I don't understand about a lot of women voters. They flock and worship at the feet of soulless and/or butt-ugly female candidates who rode into power on their husband's coattails (Hillary) or money (Boxer), but they recoil into a fit of catty jealousy against genuine articulate self-made women like Palin and Bachmann. I know that part of it is natural libtardism-- they see big government as a substitute for the daddy or the husband who treated them badly, or whom they could never get, but I don't think it can explain all of it.
I am not voting for or supporting a pretty boy who looks like a Ken doll.
I am not supporting the not.awful.to.look.at Texan.
Cain is the one for me. And it has nothing to do with his looks.
Yes, we are all just a bunch of hysterical, hormonal, catty women making choices based on emotions like jealousy. How kind of you to point that out. Maybe we shouldn't be allowed to vote?