OT Why we vote for our choices

[keno]

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/07/rational_voters.php

Of course, this doesn't apply to you or me.

keno

[Ray]

I've seen that, but it contradicts itself almost totally. The first part says we're all basically partisan hacks, voting by party almost regardless of circumstance. But then it goes on to say how thoroughly we're influenced by whether it rained a lot that month or by whether Peter Jennings smiled or frowned when he talked about Reagan in 1984.

Me, I'm impervious to all that subliminal stuff. I'm a partisan hack.

-Ray