Will Americans vote for a bachelor president?

WISC-TV / CNN ^ | June 1, 2015 | Chris Moody, CNN Senior Digital Correspondent

[2ndDivisionVet]

Lindsey Graham is aiming to buck 130 years of tradition.

American voters haven't elected an unmarried president since 1885, the same year the Washington Monument was dedicated on the National Mall and the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.

Graham is barely registering in the polls. But if he were to win the White House, he would join an elite club that includes just two previous presidents unmarried at the time of their election. James Buchanan, who preceded Abraham Lincoln's presidency, never married. Grover Cleveland won election as a bachelor, but married a woman while he was in office who was under his care and 27 years his junior.

While there was less emphasis in the media about the private lives of politicians during that era, the absence of women in their lives did not go unnoticed. Buchanan was rumored to have a romantic relationship with a male senator and Cleveland faced accusations that he secretly fathered a child he was supporting financially.

"The President is a bachelor, and bachelors, time out of mind, have been not only the greatest sinners of the race, but the most susceptible of fascination," a cheeky New York Times reporter wrote in an 1858 article about Buchanan. "Cain was a bachelor and so was Judas Iscariot."(continued)

[Billthedrill]

Buchanan was the only bachelor elected to the Presidency. Pretty painful administration to be honest, but it didn't have much to do with his bachelor status. They called him a "doughface", meaning a Northerner with Southern sympathies. Tried to get the two sides together and managed to alienate both of them. Did I mention he was a professional diplomat before that? Ugh.

I happen to be a confirmed bachelor myself, and despite the slurs on this thread I really don't need a boyfriend, thanks. Anyone who wishes to debate the matter is free to do so. Bring your lunch, you perverts.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Linda Graham? President? Laughable! She could co-hebetate with Billy for a ‘spouse’...

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Does Clinton count as a single president? After all, isn’t Hillary into women more than men?

[Fai Mao]

Thomas Jefferson was a widower. He could legally marry his second wife because she was black.

[conservativejoy]

I think he may have a voting block, LGTG.

[laweeks]

After all, isn’t Hillary into women more than men?

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I get it

[Yogafist]

Graham is about as serious a candidate as Pat Paulson. He just hasn’t run as many tines yet.

[Raycpa]

But Pat Paulson will get more votes than Linda.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

This creep has zero chance of being nominated - wonder why it’s running?

[laweeks]

I refuse to stoop so low as to suggest that he’s a Barbie hugging Broadway-showgirl tootsie-roll-eating lizard worshiper, a brown-wind-loving pole pushing vacuum-lipped anal warrior, a carrot-swallowing poodle owning skipping little hotdog-eater, a chalk-licking lavender sniffing cheeky merrymonkey pole-vaulter, a cigar smoking giggling little donut-puncher, a Crisco-hoarding, rainbow-prancing, Fucsia Puffed batty boy, a feminine-acting, stick-twiddling parade-marching ball-juggler, a gerbil-feeding flower sniffing rainbow-squatting bottoms-up boy, a giggling little donut-puncher, a glitter-loving tail-tickling Cleveland Steamer pooftah, a ham-slamming organ grinder, a latte-swilling, boy-texting pump-a-loaf bread-boffer, a limp-wristed prancing knob-jockey , a loafer-lightening grass-tickling pounder of fudge, a merrily-hopping NPR-listening musical-favoring chin-trauma patient, a merry delicate lightly-prancing dress-favoring protein-burper, a pearl-necklace adorned tumblebunny, or a petal-covered swishing basket-burglar

I just ain’t gonna’ do it. And I won’t vote for her either.

[Colonel_Flagg]

If elected (most doubtful), Linda would be the first female president.

You're forgetting the Current Occupant.

[laweeks]

Why doesn’t she run on the Demorat ticket with Bernie Sanders. She’s damn near everything that Sanders it.

[jazusamo]

LOL...Right on!

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

Would you vote for the SC State pickle chugging champion (twelve years in a row)?

I didn’t think so but I had to ask.

[previous post text proudly stolen]

[mykroar]

Doesn’t Linda know Hitlery is the female candidate?

[laweeks]

Would you vote for the SC State pickle chugging champion (twelve years in a row)?

Nor would I vote for a pink-sequin-adorned squeeze-friendly rectum-flagellator, a quiche-slurping, glitter-coated nimble-dancer, a rose-sprinkling, first-chair rusty-trombone pole-vaulter, a rump-radar-pinging, butterbutt loving, feathered drag princess, a sibilant-s-pronouncing girl-drink-swilling fruity little balltender, a silent-screaming bed-bouncing pump-wearing butt pilot, a skipping lavender-scented pillow-biter, a skipping lavender-scented pillow-biter, a soap-dropping, spanks-wearing, cabana-boy-loving, turd burglaring rug bumper.

I just wouldn't

[PGR88]

“Bachelor” is so polite.

that’s what my grandma called them back in the 1950s.

[mrs ippi]

Of course they would vote for a bachelor . They will never vote for an amnestry loving — “kill more of us in Iraq” FREAK!!

[fhayek]

He could be his own first lady. Could save a lot of taxpayer money that way.

[lulu16]

Tto be read to my husband. Those are funny names. But what exactly does “ Cleveland Steamer pooftah” mean?

This was also asked about last March on FR.