Thomas Seay wrote:
>
> --- On Fri, 9/26/08, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
> > I don't know how good the grounds were, but many after
> > the 1960 election
> > attributed Kennedy's victory to Nixon's
> > 5-o'clock shadow. Certainly it
> > would seem improbable that the _arguments_ offered by
> > either would have
> > any appreciable effect.
>
> Wasn't it claimed, though, that radio listeners thought Nixon won? Perhaps that's how they came to speculate that it was Nixon's "5-c'clock shadow".
> If that is what they based it upon, they could have just as well speculated that the reason radio-listeners preferred Nixon was due to Kennedy's grating accent.
Interesting. Perhaps speculating on the motives or internal psychic states of strngers, particularly millions of quite varied strangers, is usually a mug's game.
Carrol