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Originally posted by DeltAlum
FYI...
"15th U.S. president James Buchanan is the only unmarried man ever to be elected president. Buchanan was engaged to be married once; however, his fiancée died suddenly after breaking off the engagement, and he remained a bachelor all his life."
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This was before electronic media, so its difficult to make comparisons.
Visual aspects of a presidents image are far more important than back then. You don't see presidential candidates with facial hair anymore, or who are bald.
As far as morality, Reagan was divorced, so that issue is dead and buried. But being single? A generic hypothetical president has to be married with children. You would need an individual to be so exceptional, that it wouldn't matter. There are no single people alive, that I can think of, that meet that criterion.
Think about this, why is the individual single? Is he gay? That's a tough one for the American public to swallow at this point in time. Is he asexual? That would kill a candidate, especially if he admitted to that. Is he someone who likes to play the field? No way is he getting elected. It would take a uniquely exceptional individual to overcome all of this, and he would probably have to be a Republican (so that he's not reinforcing negative stereotypes.)
If you had a conservative gay man, who was a Rhodes Scholar
and a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, it could happen.
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