Surely the nude centerfold would hurt him a lot more nationally than in MA. Just sayin'.
Probably helps him or anything, he is SMOKIN' in that picture.
Even though I'm straight, I totally agree.
He'd win women.
Didn't JFK win in 1960 because many women thought he was hot and sexy and thus voted for him, allowing him to win several large swing states by narrow margins and thus the election.
Yes.
My grandmother, a lifelong Republican, voted for JFK because I quote "he was a looker". And she really REALLY disliked Nixon.
Was your grandma a Goldwater Republican? Also, how come she disliked Nixon so much? Back then no one knew that he was a crook. Was it his lack of charisma? His close association with Alger Hiss? Or something else?
Yes, she was a Taft/Goldwater Republican, in West Texas. She held her nose and voted for Eisenhower only because Stevenson scared the hell out of her (she thought he was extremely liberal). As for Nixon though, she said that a) She felt like that Kennedy was actually more conservative than Nixon on some areas, b) he looked good, c) she smelled something corrupt about Nixon, and d) she was enthusiastic about Kennedy's approach to civil rights. Kennedy was the only Democrat she ever voted for, she considered him a "great president" but she absolutely hated Johnson's administration. She thinks the man was like Satan Incarnate. She was a very avid supporter of Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential campaign. She has alot of problems with the current Republican Party, namely that they have abandoned their "conservative roots" with their big government spending and the social interventionist policies of the Religious Right.
For her time, she was a very unique woman in her environment.
