Is America Man Enough to Vote?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/is-america-man-enough-to-vote.html

Is America Man Enough to Vote?
By VICTORIA BASSETTI

...American voter participation is consistently below that of other industrialized democracies. (The historically significant 2008 presidential election drew less than 62 percent of eligible voters to the polls.) It’s a truism among election reformers that poor turnout produces poor representation, which produces laws people are disinclined to obey and so undermines the process. But here’s a new idea: testosterone may provide a key to boosting voter turnout.

In 2008, scientists from Duke University and the University of Michigan analyzed the biological effects of voting on more than 150 voters. On Election Day, more than 150 test subjects chewed sugar-free gum after they’d voted and again at regular intervals after learning the election results.

When the scientists analyzed the testosterone in the saliva generated by all that gum chewing, they noted a dramatic pattern: men who had voted for the losing presidential candidate, John McCain, suffered a big drop in their testosterone after hearing of his defeat.

The scientists reported that the male McCain voters “felt significantly more controlled, submissive, unhappy and unpleasant.” The testosterone effect was “as if they directly engaged head-to-head in a contest for dominance” and lost, one researcher told a reporter when the study was published in 2009. The men who voted for Obama fared better. The researchers speculated that there might be an Obama baby boom. ...

[ohheckyeah]

1. Maybe the question should be is America WOMAN

enough to vote since more women,percentage wise, vote than men do.

[regnaD kciN]

2. Since women skew more Democratic...

...I'd say the big question, for me, is "Are American women man enough to vote?"

[Iggy]

3. Short Answer: NO.

Long answer:

our nation is unfortunately chock-full-o' flat out bigots and crazy people.

Millions are not going to vote so much for Rmoney but against Obama, the scary black man

and fifty percent of eligible voters will do as usual: stay home or come up with a feeble excuse not
to vote.

Russia has higher voter participation than we do