Presidential Politics: Unfair to Fatties?

Presidential Politics: Unfair to Fatties?

Popular politicians like Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Joe Lieberman, Mitt Romney and others have helped shatter old racial, gender and religious barriers to seeking high office, but one group of Americans remains dramatically under-represented among the electoral elite: fat people. Some 68% of American adults are overweight and more than 30% are obese, but none of the serious presidential contenders in recent years has struggled with weight issues. In 2008, in fact, Mike Huckabee made a point of trumpeting his own loss of more than a hundred pounds as one of his qualifications for office, and his supporters understood that his...