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TODAY'S STORIES
11.02.2008
Politics in our Genes?

You know the campaign is a big deal when the health fluff pieces turn to it for stuffing. Are your politics rooted in your genes?” CNN asks. In so far as genes determine the way we think, yes! I guess this means that future candidates are gonna start mining our genetic codes like polling data. Thank goodness Huckabee doesn’t believe in evolution!

--Francesca Mari

Posted: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:05 PM with 3 comment(s)

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virginiacentrist said:

ha. What fluff!. So many other factors take precedence and we're only beginning to grapple with workable theories for which ones outrank others:

geography, income, gender, parents' politics, race, religion, marital status, religiosity, union membership, etc.

Genes can wait.

February 11, 2008 3:34 PM

guyminuslife said:

Corrrrrrr....

Correlation....

Correlation....does.....

Correlation.......does.....................not.....

Correlation does not equal causation.

Easy example: African-Americans have a certain gene that makes their skin dark. African-Americans vote for Democratic presidents almost 90% of the time. Therefore, the gene that causes dark skin also makes one genetically predisposed to be a Democrat.

February 11, 2008 7:29 PM

asnevitt said:

Hmmmm. My father's a pro-miltary, fiscal Republican. My mother is a fundamentalist Mormon Republican.My two sisters and I are all liberals. We must have gotten all the recessive genes.

February 11, 2008 9:51 PM