So substance is meaningless in these polls...It’s all style...
It has since Nixon-Kennedy race. If you look at each Presidential campaign since then, the “better” looking one won.
I mean really Reagan vs. Carter - Easy
Reagan vs. Mondale - Easier
Bush vs Dukakis - Good God easy
Bush vs Clinton - well you know
Clinton vs Dole - Come on
Bush vs Gore - Easy
Bush vs Kerry - Extremely easy
Obama vs McCain - Well those Dems loved him
Obama vs Romney - Young vs Old Young wins
Gee, you had a good thing going there, and I was going “yes, yes, yes...” but then I think you contradicted your own conclusion with Obama vs Romney, switching to young vs old. Age didn’t matter. Romney, who I never supported, was not all that old, and he’s a very good-looking man. Pres. PurpleLips may be young but he’s not good looking Won over Romney the same way he did over McCain - fraud and evil.
However, I like your hypothesis as it applies to 2016. Nobody’s uglier than Hillary.