Shock Study: U.S. Flag Only Boosts GOP

[K-McD]

Just a brief exposure to an image of the American flag shifts voters, even Democrats, to Republican beliefs, attitudes and voting behavior even though most don’t believe it will impact their politics, according to a new two-year study just published in the scholarly Psychological Science.

What’s more, according to three authors from the University Chicago, Cornell University and Hebrew University, the impact had staying power.

“A single exposure to an American flag resulted in a significant increase in participants’ Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs, and implicit and explicit attitudes, with some effects lasting 8 months,” the study found. “These results constitute the first evidence that nonconscious priming effects from exposure to a national flag can bias the citizenry toward one political party and can have considerable durability.”

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Quick! Everyone go and hang The American Flag outside your home and see if your neighbors catch 2nd-hand Conservatism.

 

[Krakatoa]

What a bunch of nonsense. If it really worked I would be in favor of more flags, though, since being a Catholic morally obligates me to vote pro-life, and the GOP is traditionally the pro-life party.

 

[JPUSC]

Um, how would you explain non-GOP politicians who see the flag every single day like in the White House and government buildings? Plus don’t they all wear American flag pins?and some of them have in their campaign logos and materials.

 

[bbarrick8383]

Um, how would you explain non-GOP politicians who see the flag every single day like in the White House and government buildings? Plus don’t they all wear American flag pins?and some of them have in their campaign logos and materials.

Probably talking about average folks who don’t discuss politics on a daily basis, not ideologues who are firm in their beliefs no matter what happens.

 

[Iron_Donkey]

What a bunch of nonsense.

I concur.

Cough.

 

[Monte_RCMS]

Heck!

It’s easy enough to test!!

EVERYBODY: Show the American flag at every opportunity.

Fly it from your house. Show it from your apartment window. Fly it from your car window. Get American Flag stickers and put them on all your mail. All political campaign literature mailers: print the American Flag on your envelopes … and mail everyone on your mailing list lots of American Flag return address labels and stickers.

So let’s test the hypothesis liberally and completely between now and November 4th 2012.

And let’s see how the election results turn out.

 

[Arkadin]

I hope not since I’m going to be using a cut-up US flag in my painting.