To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Most royal candidate theory

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The most royal candidate theory of Harold Brooks-Baker proposed that the winning candidate in United States presidential elections had always been the candidate with the greatest percentage of "royal blood" in his pedigree, and this pattern could be used to predict the outcome of upcoming elections. Brooks-Baker promoted it during several election cycles, ending with the 2004 presidential election, the last before his death.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    13 414
    33 944
    280 519
  • Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Related? - Both Direct Descendants of British Royalty
  • 12 yr Girl Discovers 42 US Presidents Related to One British King.
  • Who are Jon Snow's Parents? - Game of Thrones R + L = J Theory Explained [Documentary]

Transcription

History

Every four years for a number of election cycles, Harold Brooks-Baker publicized his theory during the presidential election campaign, touring the talk circuit and expounding upon it. He gave examples of presidents whose losing opponents did not have royal blood (Ronald Reagan vs. Walter Mondale), or where he claimed the winner simply had "more royalty" (John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon).[1] Based on his theory, Brooks-Baker predicted that John Kerry would defeat the incumbent President George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election because while sharing a number of royal bloodlines Kerry had more royal ancestors than Bush.[2] However, Bush was re-elected and Brooks-Baker died a few months later.[3]

Criticism

Brooks-Baker was not known for the reliability of his information. His obituary in The Daily Telegraph would say of him: "His great advantage for journalists was that he was always available to make an arresting comment; his disadvantage was that he was often wrong."[4][5] Critics of the theory point out that perhaps a third of all Americans may be descended from John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), and that the odds of being distantly related to other royalty are even higher. This is an effect of a phenomenon known as pedigree collapse which occurs due to the doubling of the number of a person's ancestors with each generation. In theory, each person has over one thousand ancestors after ten generations and one million after twenty, far exceeding the number of persons actually living in most regions at any point in time. In fact, most people are descended from the same ancestors multiple times through different lines while anyone living at the time of King John could have tens of millions of descendants in the present day.[6]

There remains a factual question as to whether the number of each candidate's royal ancestors or percentage of "royal blood" can be accurately estimated without being able to trace every branch of the candidate's family tree for an indefinite length. However, the relevance of such descent is also questioned due to the relatively small degree of inheritance a person receives from such distant ancestors. For instance, a person ten generations removed from a royal ancestor would have less than one thousandth of that ancestor's DNA and this amount would be halved with each subsequent generation. Thus, even if being a twenty-seventh generation descendant of King John could confer some advantage on a presidential contender, it is unclear how it would have any measurable effect.[7]

The central claim that until 2004 the winner was always the most royal is called into question by four instances in which successive elections were contested by the same two candidates, with different results. In 1800, 1828, 1840 and 1892, the victorious candidate had lost to the same opponent in the previous election.

Cultural influence

The conclusions of Brooks-Baker would be picked up by conspiracy theorist David Icke and incorporated into his formulation of a world history controlled by Illuminati, whom he sees as a race of reptilian humanoids that includes the royal houses of Europe.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ The New York Times: Chronicle. October 28, 1996.
  2. ^ The Guardian: Kerry's royal roots will give him victory, says Burke's. August 17, 2004.
  3. ^ USA Today: Royal authority Harold Brooks-Baker dies. March 6, 2005.
  4. ^ "Harold Brooks-Baker". The Daily Telegraph. 8 March 2005.
  5. ^ "Is the Queen really a descendant of Prophet Mohammed?". The Week. 12 April 2018.
  6. ^ Adams, Cecil (21 August 1987). "How You Can Always Have More Ancestors as You Go Back in Time". Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  7. ^ The New York Times: Royal Genes Too Diluted to Help Bush. July 21, 1988.
  8. ^ David Icke (2003). Tales from the Time Loop. Bridge of Love Publications. p. 24.
  9. ^ Thom Burnett (pseud.) (2006). Conspiracy Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories. Collins & Brown. p. 275.
This page was last edited on 14 January 2024, at 21:31
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.