POLITICS

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INFORMED CONSERVATIVE OF THE DAY

MIKE HUCKABEE claimed that most of the signers of the Declaration of
Independnce were clergymen. According to Politifact, only one of the 56
were clergymen.

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COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE OF THE DAY

I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for
them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today. -
Glenn Beck

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TEST: PEOPLE PREDICT ELECTION WINNERS JUST LOOKING AT FACES

SCIENTIFIC BLOGGING - Princeton psychologist Alexander Todorov has
demonstrated that quick facial judgments can accurately predict
real-world election returns. Todorov has taken some of his previous
research that showed that people unconsciously judge the competence of
an unfamiliar face within a tenth of a second, and he has moved it to
the political arena.

His lab tests show that a rapid appraisal of the relative competence of
two candidates' faces was sufficient to predict the winner in about 70
percent of the races for U.S. senator and state governor in the 2006
elections. "We never told our test subjects they were looking at
candidates for political office -- we only asked them to make a gut
reaction response as to which unfamiliar face appeared more competent,"
said Todorov, an assistant professor of psychology and public affairs.
"The findings suggest that fast, unreflective judgments based on a
candidate's face can affect voting decisions."

http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_account/picking_election_
winner_by_appearance_accurate_70_percent_of_the_time


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