Thursday, October 14, 2010

MOST DATABLE POLITICIAN?

Gavin Newsom is shown. | AP photo
With 33% of the female vote, Gavin Newsom is the most datable politician. | AP photoClose
Just a day after Hillary Clinton was crowned the most popular politician, she made it onto another list, nabbing a spot as one of the most datable politicians in a survey conducted by online dating site, Zoosk.

Zoosk polled 1,000 singles about politics and love to find out which politicians they deemed datable and whether an inclination toward tea party views made someone hot or not.

The findings? Tall, toothy Californian Gavin Newsom was crowned the most datable male politician with 33 percent of the female vote, while Sarah Palin won most datable female politician, with 32 percent of the male vote.

Coming in behind Mr. California were President Barack Obama with 24 percent, Sen. Scott Brown grabbing 15 percent, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger with 14 percent and John Edwards at 5 percent. (Yes, you read that correctly.)

In the political dames department, the men seemed to prefer bespectacled brown-haired Republican women. Christine O'Donnell nabbed the silver medal right behind Palin with 22 percent of the vote. Next was Democrat M. Teresa Ruiz from New Jersey with 18 percent, followed by Hillary Clinton with six percent and Condoleezza Rice with five percent.

Along with the politician they would want on their arm, the singles were asked which first couple, since the Carter administration, had the most solid relationship. There was a split of the sexes on this question, with men going for the Reagans and women voting for the Obamas. But both men and women agreed on the couple with the least romance, ranking George and Barbara Bush below the Carters, George W. and Laura Bush and the Clintons on the list of smoochiest couples.

Of course, it wouldn't be a political survey without a tea party question, so Zoosk asked the singles if a tea party affiliation made you more likely to want to wine and dine someone or if it inspired you to change your status to unavailable. 27 percent of singles said they would date a tea party member, 51 percent said they would consider it and 22 percent said heck no.

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