Posted on 10/21/2009 9:21:21 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Male supporters of presidential candidates John McCain and Bob Barr took news of their candidates’ loss to Barack Obama hard, almost like a kick in the crotch, a new study from Duke University and the University of Michigan concludes.
Young men who voted for either McCain or Barr suffered immediate drops in their testosterone levels after the election results were announced, while Obama supporters suffered no change. Females also suffered no change, according to the study, which will be published in the journal PLOS One on Wednesday.
"This is a pretty powerful result," said Duke neuroscientist Kevin LaBar. "Voters are physiologically affected by having their candidate win or lose an election."
Researchers at Duke and Michigan tested the testosterone levels of 183 people when the polls closed and again after the results were announced around 11:30 p.m.
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If only McCain had some testosterone, maybe we’d have had the chance to find out what would have happened to O supporters’ levels when HE lost.
Now I understand why my balls have been hurting so much since last November.
It's not so much that McCain lost as it is knowing what's in store for you. Probably the same drop in testosterone happens when a judge tells a fresh looking 18 year old blond he's going up to the big house for a few years.
They tested the children of RINOs.
Let’s test 0bama supporters when he gets thrown from office.
When you have
none to lose
no loss
will you show.
Wouldn’t that have happened long before the election...about the time McCain became the candidate?
Cindie
One thing I learned form 2008 is that I won’t be voting for an sissy republican men ever again.
Bollocks.
LOL!
After the election, we have to look at skinny-BO, and Amazon-MO every day.
Whose testosterone level wouldn't drop?
That doesn't leave many choices.
McCain loss to 0ba-Mao kneecaps United States.
I know, but I intend to stick by my words. I will no longer vote for the lesser of two evils. I will vote for no evil. Regardless of consequence, the time has come to take a stand.
I suppose we have to pick the hill we die upon. I choose to die upon the hill of God given Freedom. My Lord gave me life, and during that life I have made many bad decisions. This decision, should it be my last, will be the right one.
Give me liberty, or give me death.
I will settle for nothing in between.
I voted for Palin. I wonder what that means in terms of this study?
Yep, me too, and I’ll vote for her again.
Did the study also find mysterious brown stains on the noses and lips of 0b0z0 worshipers?
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