From the Writer’s Almanac:
Today is Election Day. It’s the 56th presidential election of the United States, and today is the first time in more than 50 years that neither the sitting president nor the sitting vice president is a candidate on his party’s ticket in the new presidential election. It’s also the very first time in history that the two main candidates for president are both sitting senators. The last sitting senator to be elected U.S. president was JFK in 1960.
I do believe this may also be the first time in history that the two major party candidates are both left-handed. But I haven’t confirmed that.
An earlier matchup of major-party southpaws: Bush I vs. Clinton I. And according to one site I found, 1992 was a trifecta: Perot is a lefty, too. Clinton also faced another left-handed in Bob Dole — though he was a natural righty who went portside due to having his right shoulder shattered in World War II.
Not only that: Among the first 20 presidents, just one was a left-hander — No. 20, James Garfield. But among the last five men elected to the office (worded so I can include Obama, four are lefties.
The only thing I think this says is that the deliberate discouragement of left-handedness has been discontinued (me — I write left-handed and do everything else right-handed).