Do Crazy People Support Bush?

Bush's approval rating has been sitting in the toilet for most of this year, and the obvious failures in Iraq are making it tough to buy into his rhetoric. Yet he won the 2004 election with an electoral and popular majority. All of which raises the question: if conservatives are disenchanted with Bush, liberals obviously despise him, and centrists are going with the Democrats - who actually supports him? One researcher believes the answer is "crazy people."

[Graduate student Christopher] 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.
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“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.’”
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“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.
Maybe the lunatics really are running the asylum?

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