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National security voting record, social security vision for the future, taxes for the rich, programs for the poor, policy, policy, policy . . . Whatever happened to treating them like sex objects? Someone's got to ask the easy questions, and we decided it had to be us. Last month, we asked you to rate twenty-two politicians and pundits in four categories: Body Language, Bedroom Voice, Personal Style and Sex Appeal. You dutifully told us who's hot, and who's not even close. Scroll down past the chart for some demographic revelations. Who considers Bush's body language hotter: men or women? The answer might surprise you.
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The Breakdown
Survey of 717 Hooksexup readers; ratings on a ten-point scale.
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1
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Bill Clinton
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8.6
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8.4
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8.7
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8.6
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8.5
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2
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John Edwards
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8.2
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7.7
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8.3
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8.4
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8.3
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3
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Barack Obama
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7.3
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7.2
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7.3
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7.5
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7.3
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4
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
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7.0
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6.3
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7.2
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7.4
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7.0
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5
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John Kerry
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6.9
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6.6
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7.0
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7.6
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6.4
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6
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Anderson Cooper
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6.7
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6.4
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6.6
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6.9
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6.7
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7
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Howard Dean
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6.6
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5.9
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6.7
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6.8
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7.0
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Average
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Bedroom voice
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Body language
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Personal style
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Sex appeal
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8
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Carol Moseley-Braun
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6.2
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6.1
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6.3
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6.3
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6.0
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9
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Colin Powell
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6.1
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6.1
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6.2
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6.4
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5.6
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10
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Ahnold
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5.5
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4.2
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5.9
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6.3
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5.7
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11
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Tucker Carlson
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5.5
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5.1
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5.5
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5.7
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5.6
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12
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Al Franken
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5.4
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4.5
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5.7
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6.0
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5.3
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13
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Al Sharpton
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4.8
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5.0
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5.1
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5.0
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4.0
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14
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Ann Coulter
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4.8
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4.3
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4.7
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5.0
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5.0
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Average
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Bedroom voice
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Body language
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Personal style
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Sex appeal
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15
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Maureen Dowd
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4.8
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4.3
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4.7
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5.0
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5.0
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16
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Condoleezza Rice
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4.6
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4.4
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4.6
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4.8
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4.4
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17
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Karen Hughes
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4.4
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4.4
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4.5
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4.4
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4.2
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18
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Ralph Nader
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3.6
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3.5
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3.7
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3.8
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3.3
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19
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Dubya Bush
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3.2
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2.5
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3.3
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4.1
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2.8
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20
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Donald Rumsfeld
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2.8
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2.8
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3.0
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3.1
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2.3
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21
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Bill O'Reilly
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2.6
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2.6
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2.7
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2.8
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2.2
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22
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Dick Cheney
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1.9
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1.9
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2.0
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2.3
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1.4
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Results based on survey responses of 717 visitors to hooksexup.com. Respondents were asked to identify themselves by gender and whether they considered themselves straight, gay or bisexual. Respondents were asked to evaluate the above personalities in four categories, choosing from six Olympic-style scores: 10, 8.5, 8.9, 6,7, 5.0 and DQ (disqualified). The final values are averages. Statistical analysis:
BEDROOM VOICE
In a Bush/Kerry matchup, Kerry's bedroom voice was preferred by all six sexual orientations surveyed. Straight men rated Bush's bedroom voice much higher than straight women did — straight men rated it a 3.2, on average; straight women rated it a 1.9.
Ralph Nader's bedroom voice was also rated hotter by straight men (3.7) than straight women (3.3). Straight men also liked Bill O'Reilly's bedroom voice (3.0) more than straight women did (2.3). Gay women rated it lowest (2.0).
The great uniter: Bill Clinton's bedroom voice was ranked No. 1 by all six sexual orientations. Gay men's second-favorite was John Edwards (8.3). Gay women's second-favorite was John Edwards (7.9).
Gay women were the biggest fans of Al Sharpton's bedroom voice; they rated it 5.8, higher than straight men (5.5) and gay men (5.4) did. Straight women found it least sexy (their average rating: 4.3).
Straight men and gay men liked Condoleeza Rice's bedroom voice (4.9 and 4.8, respectively) much more than gay women did (2.8)
The biggest fans of Howard Dean's bedroom voice were gay men: they rated it 7.6. Dean's second-biggest fans: straight women, who gave him a 5.9.
Al vs. Al: Every sexual orientation preferred Al Sharpton's bedroom voice to Al Franken's — except straight women, who gave Franken a 4.7 to Sharpton's 4.3.
BODY LANGUAGE
In a Bush/Kerry matchup, John Kerry's body language was preferred by all six sexual orientations surveyed. The biggest fans of Bush's body language were straight men (3.9), who rated Kerry higher (6.4) than Bush, but by a smaller margin than any other sexual orientation. Bush scored lowest with gay women (2.0); Kerry scored lowest with straight men. Straight women preferred Kerry (7.4) to Bush (3.0) by more than 2-to-1.
Straight men considered Arnold Schwarzenegger's body language vastly hotter than straight women did (6.9 vs. 4.7).
Gay men rated Anderson Cooper's body language highest at 8.0. Cooper's next-highest rating came from straight women (7.2). Straight men found it least hot (5.8).
Tucker Carlson's body language was considered hottest by bisexual men (6.5). Straight men liked it least (4.9). Straight women gave it a 6.1.
Gay-straight split: Straight men rated Donald Rumsfeld's body language hottest; gay men ranked it least hot.
Gay-straight unity: both gay and straight men gave Hillary Clinton a 7.0.
Biggest disagreement: Bi men and gay women were violently divided on the hotness of Maureen Dowd (rating her 6.1 and 3.2, respectively) and Ann Coulter (also 6.1 vs. 3.2).
Al vs. Al: Al Franken's body language was preferred to Al Sharpton's by every sexual orientation except gay men, who rated Sharpton 5.7, Franken 5.5.
PERSONAL STYLE
In a Bush/Kerry matchup, John Kerry's personal style was preferred by all six sexual orientations surveyed. The biggest fans of Dubya's style were straight men (4.7); the biggest fans of Kerry's style were straight women and bisexual men (both scored him 8.1). Straight men ranked Kerry's style lower than anyone else (6.9), but they still preferred it to Bush's style.
The great uniter: Straight women, gay women, bisexual women and bisexual men all rated John Edwards' personal style between 8.8 and 8.9.
Straight men and women both ranked Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton as the most stylish man and woman. (Among straight women, John Edwards missed out on the No. 1 slot by .01). Runners-up among straight men: John Edwards (7.8), Barack Obama (7.4), Ahnold (7.1). Runners-up among straight women: Edwards (8.8), Kerry (8.1) and Obama (7.7).
Gay men liked John Edwards's personal style most (average score: 9.1). Runners-up among gay men were Anderson Cooper (8.9), Bill Clinton (8.8) and Barack Obama (8.4).
The great uniters, book two: Gay men said Dick Cheney (2.1) and Bill O'Reilly (2.5) had the least personal style. So did straight men.
Gay women found Dick Cheney even less stylish (1.9) than gay men did. They found Bill Clinton most stylish (9.2, the highest individual rating in the entire survey).
Condoleezza Rice's personal style was rated highest by gay men (5.3), but gay women were relatively unimpressed (3.5).
Gay women considered Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton the most stylish man and woman (9.2 and 9.3 overall). Their picks for least stylish man and women: Dick Cheney (1.8) and Maureen Dowd and Ann Coulter (3.2 each).
Maureen Dowd's biggest style fans were straight men (5.7). Her biggest style detractors were gay women (3.2).
Gay men rated Tucker Carlson's personal style (7.1) much higher than straight men did (4.9).
Ralph Nader's personal style rated lowest with bisexual men (3.3). It scored highest among gay men (4.2).
SEX APPEAL
Straight women rated Bill Clinton (8.7) and Barack Obama (7.5) the sexiest men. They rated Dick Cheney and Bill O'Reilly the least sexy. Straight women rated Hillary Clinton (6.9) and Carol Moseley-Braun (6.2) the sexiest women.
Straight men think George Bush has more sex appeal (3.3) than straight women do (2.4).
Among all six sexual orientations surveyed, all agreed that John Edwards was hotter than John Kerry and that George W. Bush was hotter than Dick Cheney.
Straight men rated Arnold Schwarzenegger hotter than any other sexual orientation did (average rating: 6.8). Ahnold scored worst among straight women and gay women (2.9 and 4.6 respectively).
Al Franken's sex appeal scored highest (6.0) among gay women. In fact, gay women rated Franken higher in sex appeal than every woman except Hillary Clinton and Carol Moseley-Braun.
Al vs. Al: Al Sharpton earned his highest scores in this category from gay women (5.2), but they still preferred Al Franken.
Bill Clinton's sex appeal was undisputed by all sexual orientations: he scored above an 8.2 with each. He scored best with bisexual women (ba dum ching!; 8.9). He scored lowest with straight men (8.2).
Bisexual men rated Dick Cheney's sex appeal almost twice as high as bisexual women did.
Straight men rated Donald Rumsfeld almost twice as sexy (3.0) as bisexual men (1.6) did.
The biggest differences of opinion: gay men (8.6) and straight men (5.7) over Anderson Cooper . . .
. . . and straight men (6.2) and gay women (3.2) over Ann Coulter . . .
. . . and bisexual men (6.3) and gay women (3.2) over Maureen Dowd.
Straight men dug Ann Coulter (6.2). Straight women didn't (3.7).
Also violently divided: Gay men and straight men over the sex appeal of Tucker Carlson (7.4 vs. 4.7, respectively). Bisexual men were much more into Carlson (7.0) than bisexual women were (5.7).
Straight men and women, and gay men and women, agreed on the overall sex appeal of Barack Obama (all rated him between a 7.0 and 8.0) and Bill Clinton (between 8.2 and 8.9).
John Edwards scored lowest among straight men (7.6) and highest among gay women (9.2). n°
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