Could it be his universal health care plan? Or his anti-poverty proposals? Or how he looks in blue jeans?
For whatever reason, a new poll of South Carolinians has found John Edwards as the sexiest presidential candidate, Rob Christensen reports.
Edwards received 16 percent of the sexy vote, well ahead of Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, who each received 11 percent, according a survey by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh. Barack Obama was a close third with 10 percent.
Some of the other candidates didn’t do so well: John McCain (4 percent) Fred Thompson (3 percent), Mike Huckabee (2 percent) and Rudy Giuliani (1 percent.)
Among Democratic voters there was virtually a three-way tie among Edwards, Clinton and Obama. But Edwards led because of crossover appeal among Republican women. Romney was regarded as the sexiest among Republicans.
The biggest category (41 percent) thought that none of the presidential hopefuls were sexy.
The survey of 1,279 likely primary voters was conducted Jan. 11-12 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percent.
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