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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, 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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A child conceived after Obama was proclaimed President by way of celebratory sex, or any baby born under Barack Obama's term(s).
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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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11-07-2008, 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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11-10-2008, 10:43 AM
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wearing a USSR shirt != hanging Sarah Palin in effigy.
IMHO.
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yeah, no, I agree both are pretty bad. Just saying that it came from both major parties. And probably minor ones as well.
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11-07-2008, 03:49 PM
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or as funny as a curious george doll
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I was in a "political campaign" store (one of those spoof stores where all the merchandise mocks the candidates) and there was a blue shirt with a monkey running for president on it. It was on the Dem side, so they weren't talking about Georgie. 
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11-10-2008, 01:56 PM
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I was in a "political campaign" store (one of those spoof stores where all the merchandise mocks the candidates) and there was a blue shirt with a monkey running for president on it. It was on the Dem side, so they weren't talking about Georgie. |
I was in two of those stores this summer, and what I saw in both of them sickened me - for either party.
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11-11-2008, 06:51 PM
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What concerned me for this election, once I got my training class done, things coordinated and people together to set up and run the election at the precinct that I was assigned to, the results turned in finally-- was this--
Knowing that my candidates for President and VP were going to lose despite my efforts and that alot of Chicago was going down to a party for the other candidate. This said, I am glad that we have a President and that he is from the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois. Yes, I am proud of President Obama despite the fact that I voted the other way. This is a historical election; he won it fair and square and Obama deserves to be supported now by members of both parties.
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11-06-2008, 05:33 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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In college kids at least, I think they do.
(P.S. The first minute is really boring: skip through it.)
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Last edited by AOEforme; 11-06-2008 at 05:34 PM.
Reason: don't watch the first minute
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