I never thought I'd actually say this, but I'm beginning to feel just a trace of sympathy for Republicans.
Bad news seems to be sweeping over the wingnuts like a tsunami. Only a few days ago the new ABC/Washington Post showed only 20% of Americans now say they are Republicans, the lowest number since they started taking the poll in 1983. It's hard to be much of a national factor when 80% of Americans claim their affiliation to anything but your party. Now there is a new scientific study just released that not only is really bad news for the wingnuts, it's stuningly embarrassing.
It seems the men in the Republican Party have clinically been proven to be woosies. It would be very challenging to recurit new members if the stigma of being a woosie came with your new membership. I guess the wingnut girly men may have to change the meaning of their nickname, G.O.P. (Grand Old Party) to G.O.P. (Group of Pansies).
Study: McCain Voters Lost Testosterone
By BUCK WOLF, Senior Correspondent,
AOL News, October 21, 2009
(Oct. 21) -- Young men who voted for John McCain lost more than a presidential election last November. A study says their testosterone level plummeted.
As polls closed on election night, researchers at Duke University and the University of Michigan had 183 men and women chew gum and spit into test tubes and analyzed their hormones. A few hours later, as Barack Obama supporters began celebrating, they tested hormone levels again, and then later, at two more intervals. Men who voted for Obama maintained stable testosterone levels, while men who voted for McCain saw those levels drop more than 25%.
"What this study shows us is how stress and outside stimulus influences our physiology," said Duke University spokesman Karl Leif Bates. Bates said the hormone study falls in line with other research on how interpersonal contests boost or reduce testosterone. "We've tested men playing video games, and we've found the same temporary drop or rise in testosterone," Bates said. "We're soon going to repeat this test at a Duke-UNC game."
Testosterone –- a hormone a man manufactures in his testes – has been linked to stress, aggression and risk-taking. Women manufacture testosterone, too, in their ovaries and adrenal glands. A woman's testosterone levels are lower, and that makes them less likely to experience rapid testosterone changes. In the study, testosterone levels for Democratic and Republican women remained stable.
Source: http://news.aol.com/article/study-finds-mccain-voters-lost/729783
Oh, by the way, I'm now over my temporary feeling of sympathy for the wingnuts.
Bad news seems to be sweeping over the wingnuts like a tsunami. Only a few days ago the new ABC/Washington Post showed only 20% of Americans now say they are Republicans, the lowest number since they started taking the poll in 1983. It's hard to be much of a national factor when 80% of Americans claim their affiliation to anything but your party. Now there is a new scientific study just released that not only is really bad news for the wingnuts, it's stuningly embarrassing.
It seems the men in the Republican Party have clinically been proven to be woosies. It would be very challenging to recurit new members if the stigma of being a woosie came with your new membership. I guess the wingnut girly men may have to change the meaning of their nickname, G.O.P. (Grand Old Party) to G.O.P. (Group of Pansies).
Study: McCain Voters Lost Testosterone
By BUCK WOLF, Senior Correspondent,
AOL News, October 21, 2009
(Oct. 21) -- Young men who voted for John McCain lost more than a presidential election last November. A study says their testosterone level plummeted.
As polls closed on election night, researchers at Duke University and the University of Michigan had 183 men and women chew gum and spit into test tubes and analyzed their hormones. A few hours later, as Barack Obama supporters began celebrating, they tested hormone levels again, and then later, at two more intervals. Men who voted for Obama maintained stable testosterone levels, while men who voted for McCain saw those levels drop more than 25%.
"What this study shows us is how stress and outside stimulus influences our physiology," said Duke University spokesman Karl Leif Bates. Bates said the hormone study falls in line with other research on how interpersonal contests boost or reduce testosterone. "We've tested men playing video games, and we've found the same temporary drop or rise in testosterone," Bates said. "We're soon going to repeat this test at a Duke-UNC game."
Testosterone –- a hormone a man manufactures in his testes – has been linked to stress, aggression and risk-taking. Women manufacture testosterone, too, in their ovaries and adrenal glands. A woman's testosterone levels are lower, and that makes them less likely to experience rapid testosterone changes. In the study, testosterone levels for Democratic and Republican women remained stable.
Source: http://news.aol.com/article/study-finds-mccain-voters-lost/729783
Oh, by the way, I'm now over my temporary feeling of sympathy for the wingnuts.
