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By Sophie Quinton
National Journal
Frequent TV viewers who don't get any kinds of other political news are the voters most likely to be influenced by a candidate's physical appearance, a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows.
"Voters who watch a lot of television but don't really know much about the candidates besides how they look are particularly susceptible," Chappell Lawson, coauthor of the study, told MIT News. "The size of the effect is roughly equivalent to the influence of incumbency."
MIT associate professors Lawson and Gabriel Lenz evaluated data from the 2006 U.S. Senate and governor's races. They found that for every 10-point increase in the advantage a candidate had when rated by voters on his or her looks, there was a 5 percent increase in support for that candidate from uninformed voters who said they watch a lot of television. Uninformed voters who said they watch little TV only supported the candidate by an additional 1 percent.
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"Looking the Part: Television Leads Less Informed Citizens to Vote Based on Candidates' Appearance," will appear in the July edition of the American Journal of Political Science. It draws upon the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) and a survey by Princeton University professor Alex Todorov, which asked voters to choose the most competent candidate based on looks alone.The study suggests that the effect of television remains present but diminishes as voter-information levels rise.
Lenz told MIT News that the effect could be linked to other aspects of a candidate's campaign, like attention to image management, but Lawson suggested otherwise.
"If people were really voting for other qualities that just happen to correlate with appearance, we would expect the high-knowledge voters to be at least as susceptible," Lawson said.
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I wonder how many points that added for bam.
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I wonder how many points that added for bam.
Well, if we go by GetBig posters and agree that the vast majority of voters are uninformed, then factor in Barry's looks vs. McCain, I'm thinking it's a good number of points.
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I guess that must explain this:
In this vid, stupidity is at its apex from 5:50 and on.
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then Rick Perry will do well...he's a looker.
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then Rick Perry will do well...he's a looker.
Nah, he isn't black and he looks like a plantation owner.
Besides, only Democrats and liberal idiots are impressed solely by looks.
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If thats true all less-informed males will vote for Palin..maybe Bachmann
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If thats true all less-informed males will vote for Palin..maybe Bachmann
No. All the less-informed males are Democratic and liberal morons.
What don't you buffoons don't understand? All the idiots are the Obama and Democratic supporters. The same ones who got us into this mess in 2008 and the same ones who are willing to vote for him again.
If you voted for Obama in 2008. YOU ARE THAT LESS-INFORMED VOTER.
And no. McCain would not have been the unmitigated disaster that Obama turned out to be. No one is that stupid.
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So everybody who votes republican is well-informed right? How do you explain that FOX news have the most un-informed wievers according to Politifact then?
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I wonder how many points that added for bam.
says the mental patient who couldn't stop talking about how hot Palin was as if that somehow mattered
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says the mental patient who couldn't stop talking about how hot Palin was as if that somehow mattered
zing
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says the mental patient who couldn't stop talking about how hot Palin was as if that somehow mattered
Can you quote my post to where I said palins' looks are why i supported her?
Best I remember - 99% at least of my posts in that respect are about her stances on the issues vs obama.
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So everybody who votes republican is well-informed right? How do you explain that FOX news have the most un-informed wievers according to Politifact then?
I would say that the majority of Republican supporters are more informed than any Democrat or Liberal. We didn't vote for Obama. YOU DID.
How do you explain your stupidity at assuming that all Republican voters get their info solely from FOX news? BOOM. You might as well waive the white flag now.
And if you start posting polls by liberal media showing that most Republican voters watch FOX, then all you will be doing is confirming that you are a sheep.
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Can you quote my post to where I said palins' looks are why i supported her?
Best I remember - 99% at least of my posts in that respect are about her stances on the issues vs obama.
I actually hoped you supported her because of her looks, because she doesnt have any policy to speak off except hating on Obama. If that qualifies you to be pres you would have been elected years ago
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I would say that the majority of Republican supporters are more informed than any Democrat or Liberal. We didn't vote for Obama. YOU DID.
How do you explain your stupidity at assuming that all Republican voters get their info solely from FOX news? BOOM. You might as well waive the white flag now.
And if you start posting polls by liberal media showing that most Republican voters watch FOX, then all you will be doing is confirming that you are a sheep.
I didnt vote for Obama however you voted for Bush so actually the mess we are in is on your head as well.
Is Politifact the liberal media ???
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Can you quote my post to where I said palins' looks are why i supported her?
Best I remember - 99% at least of my posts in that respect are about her stances on the issues vs obama.
Best I remember 46% of your posts about Palin were about how hot she was
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I would say that the majority of Republican supporters are more informed than any Democrat or Liberal. We didn't vote for Obama. YOU DID.
How do you explain your stupidity at assuming that all Republican voters get their info solely from FOX news? BOOM. You might as well waive the white flag now.
And if you start posting polls by liberal media showing that most Republican voters watch FOX, then all you will be doing is confirming that you are a sheep.
If that were true then most republicans should get there news from liberal news-stations i highly doubt that
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I actually hoped you supported her because of her looks, because she doesnt have any policy to speak off except hating on Obama. If that qualifies you to be pres you would have been elected years ago
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Best I remember 46% of your posts about Palin were about how hot she was
Should be very easy to quote some of my posts.
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If i supported her it would be because of her looks that for sure.
I would not support her work ethic imagine if she resigned as president half way through. What an embarresment
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If i supported her it would be because of her looks that for sure.
I would not support her work ethic imagine if she resigned as president half way through. What an embarresment
LOL @ Palin's work ethic.
She quit as governor, she quit her bus tour.
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Should be very easy to quote some of my posts.
true.
there are 60,000 of them to pick from.
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says the mental patient who couldn't stop talking about how hot Palin was as if that somehow mattered
Seems to matter to you when it comes to Chris Christies weight.
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Seems to matter to you when it comes to Chris Christies weight.
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-boom!
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I really wish Christie would run.
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No. All the less-informed males are Democratic and liberal morons.
What don't you buffoons don't understand? All the idiots are the Obama and Democratic supporters. The same ones who got us into this mess in 2008 and the same ones who are willing to vote for him again.
If you voted for Obama in 2008. YOU ARE THAT LESS-INFORMED VOTER.
And no. McCain would not have been the unmitigated disaster that Obama turned out to be. No one is that stupid.
There is so much wrong with this post, I'm not sure if I want to spend the 3 minutes showing how dumb Dario73 is. :-\
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I really wish Christie would run.
agreed,
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agreed,
He keeps saying no, no, no, no.
Why? WTF.
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He keeps saying no, no, no, no.
Why? WTF.
too many secrets in his closet; it must be a HUGE closet to house the size clothes he wears! ;)
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:o
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Looks matter. They shouldn't, but they do.
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Looks matter. They shouldn't, but they do.
Maybe,
Then again, maybe not...
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Maybe,
Then again, maybe not...
lol. We need to bump that that beauty thread. That's one of the funniest threads ever on the board. :)
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Oh yea ! I have to find that. Would you hit it political edition.