In the past hundred years, the U.S.
presidency has veered more and more to the left — not in policy, but in
handedness. Barack Obama is the latest to join a long list of left-handed
presidents from the 20th century: James
Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Henry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W.
Bush and Bill Clinton were all southpaws.
What makes lefties so electable? Some experts
think left-handed people have a greater aptitude for language skills, which may
help them craft the rhetoric necessary for political office. And as for the
bout of recent left-handed presidents, some think it's because teachers only
recently stopped working to convert lefties to righties at an early age.
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