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FORD
11-28-2006, 03:10 PM
Psychotics 4 Bush!
By Melissa McEwan
Posted on November 28, 2006, Printed on November 28, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/mcewan/44843/

To be filed under duh:


Christopher Lohse, a social work master�s student at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush.

�Lohse's study, backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person's psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush.

The study began in part as an advocacy project "designed to register mentally ill voters and encourage them" to vote, while assessing "knowledge of current issues, government and politics." The Bush trend emerged in the course of the study, according to Lohse, who describes himself as a "Reagan revolution fanatic" who nonetheless finds Bush "beyond the pale." During the course of the study, it emerged that "Bush supporters has significantly less knowledge about current issues, government and politics than those who supported Kerry," and that greater levels of psychosis predicted Bush support.


"Our study shows that psychotic patients prefer an authoritative leader," Lohse says. "If your world is very mixed up, there's something very comforting about someone telling you, 'This is how it's going to be'."

None of this is actually new information. That liberal voters tend to be much better informed as a group and tend to reject authoritarianism is well documented, from both the chicken came first angle and the egg came first angle. But it's nonetheless amusing to have further evidence that the people constantly calling progressives unhinged lunatics are, you know, way more likely to be nutzoid than the targets of their gleeful finger-pointing.

Via Tom Tomorrow, who dryly notes: "Anyone who's spent any time reading right wing blogs already understood this to be true." Indeed.

(This Modern World)

Melissa McEwan writes and edits the blog Shakespeare's Sister.
� 2006 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
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FORD
11-28-2006, 03:13 PM
Here's the original article....

Bush Nuts

Are George W. Bush lovers certifiable?

By Andy Bromage

November 23 2006

A collective “I told you so” will ripple through the world of Bush-bashers once news of Christopher Lohse’s study gets out.

Lohse, a social work master’s student at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush.

Lohse says his study is no joke. The thesis draws on a survey of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations during the 2004 presidential election. Lohse’s study, backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person’s psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush.

But before you go thinking all your conservative friends are psychotic, listen to Lohse’s explanation.

“Our study shows that psychotic patients prefer an authoritative leader,” Lohse says. “If your world is very mixed up, there’s something very comforting about someone telling you, ‘This is how it’s going to be.’”

The study was an advocacy project of sorts, designed to register mentally ill voters and encourage them to go to the polls, Lohse explains. The Bush trend was revealed later on.

The study used Modified General Assessment Functioning, or MGAF, a 100-point scale that measures the functioning of disabled patients. A second scale, developed by Rakfeldt, was also used. Knowledge of current issues, government and politics were assessed on a 12-item scale devised by the study authors.

“Bush supporters had significantly less knowledge about current issues, government and politics than those who supported Kerry,” the study says.

Lohse says the trend isn’t unique to Bush: A 1977 study by Frumkin & Ibrahim found psychiatric patients preferred Nixon over McGovern in the 1972 election.

Rakfeldt says the study was legitimate, though not intended to show what it did.

“Yes it was a legitimate study but these data were mined after the fact,” Rakfeldt says. “You can ask new questions of the data. I haven’t looked at” Lohse’s conclusions regarding Bush, Rakfeldt says.

“That doesn’t make it illegitimate, it just wasn’t part of the original project.”

For his part, Lohse is a self-described “Reagan revolution fanatic” but said that W. is just “beyond the pale.” ●

abromage@newhavenadvocate.com

Copyright © 2006, New Haven Advocate

Link (http://www.ctnow.com/custom/nmm/newhavenadvocate/hce-nha-1123-nh48bushbash48.artnov23,0,1695911.story)

LoungeMachine
11-28-2006, 03:48 PM
15 minutes in The Front Line is all one needs to verify these findings.....

Although a few of the Busheep in here are intelligent, the second-tier Neo-Con wannabes who seek attention by blindly parroting everything they've heard at the dinner table, listening to Rush/OReilly/Hannity, and watched on FAUX all seem to be less than bright.

They're the same types who you'd expect to find at Jonestown waiting in line for the kool-aid

Nitro Express
11-28-2006, 04:11 PM
The state of Utah and the Jesus Camp crowd still vote for Bush. Lying to get us into a war, soldiers killed, and the errosion of the US Constitution is worth it just to keep those gay and abortion loving Democrats out of power. What they don't get is the Bush Administration is an abortion.

Nickdfresh
11-28-2006, 07:38 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
15 minutes in The Front Line is all one needs to verify these findings.....


Lounge, oh damn you, damn you to hell...

(You beat me to it!):D

Just look at the buffoons like Ultrapuke that still think Clinton is President...

Steve Savicki
11-29-2006, 06:32 AM
Considering how many have turned against him, I guess we're finally weeding down to the psychos. But there are decent Republicans out there. :)