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To: maica

I don’t believe Reagan was left-handed.


6,685 posted on 10/16/2008 6:12:41 AM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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Do You Want a Left-Handed President?
Last Updated Oct 2008

A surprisingly high percentage of Oval Office occupants are southpaws.

By David Grossberg

They say that a week in politics is like a year in anything else. The unpredictability of the world, good old-fashioned mudslinging and the fickleness of voters make prophesying election outcomes a tricky business. But this year’s presidential election holds one certainty: Your next president will be left handed. Yes, both John McCain and Barack Obama are southpaws.

Only about 10 percent of the population is left-handed. In the early 20th century with Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, a remarkable one-third of our nation’s presidents have been left-handed. With the guarantee of a leftie winning this year’s election, the percentage will increase to 36.

The 1992 election was particularly interesting, as the main contenders were George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot. All three are left-handed. The other presidential lefties include Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan.

http://autographmagazine.com/tabid/73/itemid/208/Do-You-Want-a-LeftHanded-President.aspx

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Reagan wrote with his right hand, but was a natural lefthander. As a lefthander, who switched my writing hand, I have followed this peculiar attribute of US presidents for years.


6,746 posted on 10/16/2008 1:21:22 PM PDT by maica (Barack Obama is a Weathermen Project.)
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