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This week's featured story comes from Science News.
Voter madness
Home team victories may influence elections
By Laura Sanders
Whether politicians win or lose may come down to how local athletes play the game. When local football and basketball teams were victorious, voters were more pleased with elected officials, a study appearing online July 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds. The capricious link between sports teams and politicians’ performance is a clear example of how irrelevant events can shape important judgments.
Lakoff maintains that conservatives understand the irrational factor in politics better than liberals. It's time to use science to close that gap.
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