Reply #13: Underweight, overweight, too short, not enough hair, dog-face ugly -- [View All]

[Ineeda]

all could be superficial factors in electability. However, none of those things should make a difference. Morbid obesity, though, is an attribute that is genuinely risky. Death is only one possibility. To paraphrase another poster, overweight is one thing -- morbidly obese is another matter. Would you want your president to play Russian Roulette? Or jump out of an airplane without knowing he/she had a parachute?