A New Hampshire state lawmaker has called a Democratic congresswoman 'ugly as sin' and said that her opponent is one of the most attractive women in politics. Representative Steve Vaillancourt, a Republican from Manchester, compared U.S. Representative Annie Kuster to a drag queen in a clueless blog post on NH Insider last week. He explained that he was inspired to write the post after hearing 'some polling data which went by too fast for me to write down' and which he later could not track down on Google. The poll revealed that 'an attractive candidate can have as much as a seven to ten point advantage over a less attractive (or even an unattractive) candidate,' he wrote.
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In a blog post, Republican Steve Vaillancourt wrote that Representative Annie Kuster 'looks more like a drag queen than most men in drag'
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By contrast, her opponent Marilinda Garcia is 'truly attractive', he wrote
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He said he was inspired to write the blog post after hearing a poll revealing that attractive candidates can have a 10 point lead over unattractive ones
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Garcia said the comments 'have absolutely no place in political discourse'
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