Too Short For President

For John, BLUF:  Please don't read this post.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

This is really a blog post by Law Professor Ann Althouse about relative heights of human beings, but it has the title "Predicting the 2016 candidates:  Rahm Emanuel vs. Rand Paul".  The reason for the title is, of course, that both Mayor Rahm EManuel (5'7") and Senator Rand Paul (5'8") are short by both national and political standards.  By the way, this prediction for 2016 was from Professor Althouse's husband, Meade.

In the US men average out at 5'9.5" and women at 5'4".  Turns out there is a Wikipedia entry for this kind of information, with a table by nation.

On 25 March of this year Commentator Ann Coulter ruled out both Rand Paul and his fellow Senator, Marco Rubio, for being too short.  In Ms Coulter's words, "You can’t run a short candidate!"

Professor Althouse comments:

Now, Ann Coulter is 6 feet tall, so we might speculate about the personality traits of very tall women and the politics that ensue, but I'll just say perhaps contempt toward less tall men seems likely.

Regards  —  Cliff