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When Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain took the stage for the presidential debates in November, viewers may notice both candidates scribbling notes with their left hands. Such a curiosity has occurred before: In 1992, all three contenders — George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot — were lefties.
6 of the 12 chief executives since the end of World War II will have been left-handed: Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Bush number one, Clinton and Obama. (This is a disproportionate number, considering that only ten percent of people in the general population is left-handed.)
Question: Is it possible that right- and left-handed people — and presidents — think differently?
Does anyone know whether lefties are overrepresented among C.E.O.’s or world leaders outside the United States? By my calculations, left-handed presidents would be one in a thousand chance.
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JeffreyDeGon on March 20 at 4:42 p.m.
I think the way to really understand a person is to first find out if they’re left or right handed…”I’m not saying that if you’re right handed your for the Republican partie and if you’re left handed you’re for the Democrat partie.” What I’m trying to say is that alot can be described about a person by the way he/she writes. If he/she is a lefty he/she could be open minded or if he/she is a righty he/she could be more focused on only certain reasons. Basically it’s how you write that really describes you.
krzkrlzdablggr on April 04 at 9:53 a.m.
Left-handed people are cross-wired. Its possible that left handed and right handed people may think slightly differently.