A team of Harvard professors has come up with some very interesting findings: Mitt Romney is quite handsome. His running mate, however, might be less so. 
 
 Ryan Enos, a professor of government at Harvard, and a team of researchers that rated former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a 95 out of 100 in “facial competence” in 2008, are back again, according to Washington Monthly magazine. This time, the researchers report that, objectively, the GOP nominee is even better looking than Palin: his grade was 99. 
 
 The researchers showed undergraduate students pictures of Romney, among others, for one second. The research was compiled in 2007 – when Romney was a relative unknown – a fact that researchers claim helps remove political opinions from the equation. 
 
 The relatively shocking news from the findings: running mate Paul Ryan scored a mere 67 in a pool of House candidates in 2004. The authors noted that abs were not taken into consideration in their findings. 
 
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– Forget everything you've heard about Paul Ryan's good looks: He is officially not that handsome, according to a Harvard study. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is quite the looker, the National Journal reports. In the study, undergraduates were flashed images of politicians for a single second each. Romney ended up in the 99th percentile, Washington Monthly reports—and the students made their judgment in 2007, when Romney wasn't so well-known, thus removing political bias, the researchers say. The study rated just how hot the 728 candidates running for Senate or governor between 1994 and 2006 were, which means stats are available on a few other big names: Romney's score bests that of Sarah Palin, who scored in the also-very-high 95th percentile. Biden trailed well behind, in the 62nd percentile. (Obama was considered too big a name in 2007, so he wasn't included.) And while the study used a different scale for the House, Paul Ryan was ranked: He scored in the 67th percentile among 2004 House candidates. The best-looking politician? Sen. John Thune of South Dakota.