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Debate Night
Oct. 15th, 2008 11:17 pmFrom huffingtonpost.com
A Democratic source has been emailing in, fascinated how many times McCain has blinked during tonight's affair. In the hundreds, possibly thousands he claims. Then he sends over this crazy data point, from the Journal of Psychology:
For eight U.S. presidential elections during the period 1960-2004, the rapid blinker during debates received fewer overall votes than his opponent. In seven of these eight elections, the rapid blinker also lost the electoral vote and was defeated at the polls.
OMG! I can't believe someone pointed out the rapid eye blinking. That, along with the constant slurpee noise and the continual look of contempt and disdain, totally creeped me out.
A Democratic source has been emailing in, fascinated how many times McCain has blinked during tonight's affair. In the hundreds, possibly thousands he claims. Then he sends over this crazy data point, from the Journal of Psychology:
For eight U.S. presidential elections during the period 1960-2004, the rapid blinker during debates received fewer overall votes than his opponent. In seven of these eight elections, the rapid blinker also lost the electoral vote and was defeated at the polls.
OMG! I can't believe someone pointed out the rapid eye blinking. That, along with the constant slurpee noise and the continual look of contempt and disdain, totally creeped me out.
