Monday, July 19, 2010
Sports: A Factor In Voting
Stanford scientists say local sporting events affects our voting behavior.
Because humans are emotional creatures, feelings about one thing affect others. Election results from 20 years’ worth of presidential, senatorial and gubernatorial races revealed that a pre-election home-team win gave the incumbent a boost of ~2 percentage points.
Results were consistent when studying college basketball as well.
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