3. Going Head to Head (quite literally)
When it comes to who will get your vote, most people rightfully concentrate on the policies of the candidate and their stance on the certain key issues of the day. And when we do cast our vote we are casting it for a person with a head for politics, right? What if we told you the size and shape of their literal head, not what’s in it, was an important factor in the presidential election of 1884.
The now widely discredited pseudoscience of phrenology, the study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character, was used by one newspaper to suggest who citizens you give their vote to James G. Blaine as his phrenology clearly showed him to be a man of brains, whereas his opponent Grover Cleveland as a man of beef with his ‘bull’s head.’ Turns out old bull’s head Cleveland won in a closely contested election.
