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Brain Scans May Unlock Candidates' Appeal

Posted by michael on from the clockwork-orange dept.

Anonymous Voter writes "Applying some of the same brain-scan technology used to understand Alzheimer's and autism, scientists are trying to learn what makes a Republican's mind different from a Democrat's."

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  1. From the only-two-possible-world-views Dept. by BandwidthHog · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Many people I know vote based on what those around them think. One friend in particular agrees with me on every individual issue, but is voting for Bush because it goes against her southern upbringing to vote for a liberal. So which are we discussing here, whether people are voting red or blue, or whether their world view is left or right?

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  2. Re:Easy by Tanktalus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If Bush is mentally challenged, what does that say about Kerry?

    (I don't believe Bush is mentally challenged, I don't believe Kerry is mentally challenged, and I sure as heck don't believe that IQ is anything but attaching a meaningless number to people.)

  3. interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's interesting that that the democrats' Amygdala lights up more than the republicans' for Sept. 11 surprises me. I thought the Republican platform was fear of terrorists and "remember 9/11", not the dems'. For the non-neurologists like me, read the Wiki Article

  4. Stats and Politics by secondsun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We have a one party system if anyone has noticed. The current political atmosphere, the bitterness in the media between the sides is a clever ploy to move the population as a whole. Now we have a system where you can do one thing and accuratly predict the behavior of 90% of the people. For example, the GoP says something is bad the DNC will say it is good. This follows down to the dittoheads.

    Further more, why do we have the electorate almost evenly split? It could be that both candidates and policies are so aligned that the population is simply guessing, which averages out to 50/50 with suble varioations depending on date, mood, the location of UFO's overhead etc.

    This is all conspiracy theory and ass blown conclusions (aka my opinion) so take it for what you will.

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