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11-05-2008, 07:56 PM
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There have been studies showing that in males, testosterone surges greatly when the sports team they are rooting for wins. It is suspected that this surge creates increased aggression and leads to those riots after sport championship wins. I'm not sure elections cause that same surge.
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11-05-2008, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by AGDee
There have been studies showing that in males, testosterone surges greatly when the sports team they are rooting for wins. It is suspected that this surge creates increased aggression and leads to those riots after sport championship wins. I'm not sure elections cause that same surge.
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I would guess it would depend on how emotionally invested the electorate gets in a political candidate. Some people watch politics like sports.
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11-05-2008, 08:10 PM
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I was worried that whoever won the electoral vote wouldn't win the popular vote (deja vu 2000 election). Thankfully that didn't happen.
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11-05-2008, 08:16 PM
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Who was expected to riot?
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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam
Actually, it seems with victories like this, the riots tend to be supporters of the candidate.
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I never said I only expected the wounded Republicans to riot. By all means, I expect it of the "Neo-Nazi skinheads" most (probably not a pc term, but it's the most accurate I've got), but trust and believe I expected some sort of violent shenanigans (and accompanying retaliation) from both sides.
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11-05-2008, 10:37 PM
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With the riots,
the thing that scares me is it's going to happen after Obama becomes president. I mean yesterday news broke from Statesboro there was riot and somebody got shot. Granted, this is Georgia and is part of the "Solid South" but still that is quite scary that that happened. At least the majority of the riots yesterday were ones that weren't violent.
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11-05-2008, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam
I would guess it would depend on how emotionally invested the electorate gets in a political candidate. Some people watch politics like sports.
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From Urban Dictionary:
Obama Baby
A child conceived after Obama was proclaimed President by way of celebratory sex, or any baby born under Barack Obama's term(s).
I was born July 2009. I'm an Obama baby!
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11-06-2008, 01:48 AM
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^^^I think my neighbor may have one of those because CLEARLY she and whatever guest she watched the results with "celebrated" extra loudly right after the results were called. I just left my apartment for awhile, I'm tired of telling her to keep it down.
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11-06-2008, 09:17 AM
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^^^I think my neighbor may have one of those because CLEARLY she and whatever guest she watched the results with "celebrated" extra loudly right after the results were called. I just left my apartment for awhile, I'm tired of telling her to keep it down.
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LOL! Sorry about that. My sister used to do that to me frequently when we were roommates...it was a JOYOUS day when she moved out 
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11-06-2008, 09:19 AM
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I'm not so much worred about the folks in general that were celebrating in the street in front of the White House after results were called. I'm worried about the idiots that were holding up old Soviet Union flags on TV in that same crowd...I didnt find that very becoming to their cause/candidate.
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11-06-2008, 02:09 PM
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it could have been a joke...I was getting so tired of being called a dirty Commie by a certain group at school that I wore a USSR flag T-shirt to school one day.
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11-06-2008, 02:26 PM
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^^^I agree it was most likely meant sarcastically, a tweak back at the folks who were crying "socialism" as loudly as they could, trying to make it stick those last couple weeks.
Similar to how my husband and I, when we walked into Starbucks to get our free coffee after voting on Tuesday, starting haranguing the staff just for the fun of it. "So you're just GIVING the coffee away to anyone who walks in here and asks for it? What's that, redistribution of the coffee?" And then when they handed us the coffee in their holiday cups, we launched into, "Oh! Of course! RED cups!"...
Yeah, we crack ourselves up.
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11-06-2008, 05:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AGDee
There have been studies showing that in males, testosterone surges greatly when the sports team they are rooting for wins. It is suspected that this surge creates increased aggression and leads to those riots after sport championship wins. I'm not sure elections cause that same surge.
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In college kids at least, I think they do.
(P.S. The first minute is really boring: skip through it.)
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11-07-2008, 09:20 AM
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it could have been a joke...I was getting so tired of being called a dirty Commie by a certain group at school that I wore a USSR flag T-shirt to school one day.
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That's about as funny a joke as those nutjobs hanging a model of Sarah Palin by the neck.
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11-07-2008, 10:12 AM
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That's about as funny a joke as those nutjobs hanging a model of Sarah Palin by the neck.
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or as funny as a curious george doll
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11-07-2008, 03:16 PM
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or as funny as a curious george doll
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wearing a USSR shirt != hanging Sarah Palin in effigy.
IMHO.
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