John Glenn could have run for king in 1962 after the first American orbital flight and been elected.
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Then why did it take him multiple tries to win office?
Glenn didn’t win his first outings bc while he had the astronaut aura about him, he was a lousy candidate, wooden and dull as dirt as a speaker. He also ran against the Dem incumbent, Young, then the even more odious leftist, Howard Metzenbaum who challenged him for never having “held a job”. Glenn won by responding, tell that to a Gold Star mother whose son no longer holds a “job”.