Study: Young Voters Who Saw Tina Fey's Impersonation Less Likely to Approve of Sarah Palin

[NRaleighLiberal]

Found this via a Tweet -

http://www.christianpost.com/news/study-young-voters-who-saw-tina-feys-impersonation-less-likely-to-approve-of-sarah-palin-71372/

"Young adults who watched Tina Fey's impersonation of 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" were less likely to approve of Palin than young adults who did not watch "Saturday Night Live," according to a new study.

"The Fey Effect: Young Adults, Political Humor, and Perceptions of Sarah Palin in the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign," published in the Spring 2012 issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, was authored by East Carolina University political science professors Jody Baumgartner and Jonathan Morris, and Natasha Walth, one of Morris' students. The authors also found that the "Fey Effect" was more pronounced among self-identified Republicans and independents than Democrats.

Baumgartner, Morris and Walth used a panel study in which the same 1,755 respondents answered questions six times throughout the campaign season. They were able, therefore, to measure attitudes about Palin before and after they viewed Fey's impersonation and compare the results to those who did not watch "Saturday Night Live."

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Just thought it was an interesting little read.

[MADem]

1. Send that video to every young adult you know! nt

[LisaL]

4. She is not running for anything so what's the point?

[MADem]

5. It develops a sense of what's good and what's not in the youth who view it.

If they aren't liking Fey's Palin, that might transfer to their view of the GOP in general.

And she's not running for anything--but she didn't say she wouldn't be willing to be a savior at the Tampa convention (not that it will happen, but you've got to figure she'll be angling for some consideration).

[Marie Marie]

2. And the beauty of these skits was that they wrote themselves, using her actual words.

She really is comedy gold.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Correlation does not imply causation

As much as I enjoy Tina Fey's impersonation of the Grifta from Wasilla, the more plausible explanation - to me - is that Palin's fan base are far less likely to tune in SNL in the first place.

[MADem]

6. The study, though, dealt with those who had actually seen the impersonation. nt

[mackattack]

8. that Palin's fan base are far less likely to tune in SNL in the first place.

So her fan base is 99% of all Americans?






I kid, I kid....Im a huge SNL geek.

[mackattack]

7. Many of my students think actually said

She can see Russia from her house. I believe it.