McCain Voters Lost Testosterone After Presidential Election, Study Finds

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Young men who voted for John McCain lost more than a presidential election last November. A study says their testosterone level plummeted.

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Comments

[disintaGreatNation]

I'm puzzled. If Republicans lose testosterone when defeated by a Democrat, what hormone do Democrats lose when defeated by a Green Party member?

[lightningbolt]

That explains all the whining about nonsense.

[nexxtep54]

Loosing testosterone after the election would imply having gained it during the election. Me, I like a nice looking woman. Republican males ?? well . . ..

[rivahcat]

Sooo... I guess the corollary to this is, vote Democrat if you want to be manly! ;-)

[Nunnya]

They may have lost testosterone but they gained a whole lot of crazy.

[Tavallai]

Truly groundbreaking research. I'm not being facetious.

The loss of testosterone explicitly means that there was testosterone to begin with. Implicitly meaning that Republican voters at some point had balls.

Who knew??

[jws2346]

What kinda' ding bat study is this ? The election for a man/woman that's gonna' stipulate the direction of America is not exactly a video game, at least to me it ain't. I think what the American voter indicated with their vote was that it was time for America to switch gears. The same "O", same "O" wasn't working anymore. America in this day and age, with it's rapid technology and resources, makes war and killing humans, or anything for that matter, dubious if not insane (there's great debate as to whether it ever was). I think the voter got tired of the scare tactics, the outright lies and the attempt to put us back in the caves with our knuckles dragging.

[Imzadi]

I can't believe someone actually did the study.

;-)

[PhillyProfessor]

I think its a really cool study, to help us better understand effect of stressors ( like political outcomes!) on our our bodies at a physiological level. And our hormonal reflexes are part of the base of that physiology. I'm kinda surprised that it hasn't been done before-seems like a natural While the article states that women who voted for Palin had no discernible effect on testosterone levels, what about their estrogen and progesterone levels? THAT would be interesting to know.

[Changein2012]

"Republican men can take comfort in the fact that the testosterone drop was only temporary, and that the midterm elections are coming".

Yes, 2010 will boost it, no doubt!

[Changein2012]

Will their offspring be Liberals now???

[hottingers]

The same thing happened to Bob Dole.

[gunnergoz]

This probably had less to do with McCain and more to do with Palin, since so many guys voting for her seemed to all comment about her "hotness." What were they doing in the voting boots besides voting, one wonders?

[S1m0n]

Happens to sports fans, too.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Yeah the headline is completely misleading. It's really a reaction to elation or depression.

Still funny tho.

[ThinkCreeps]

Maybe their testosterone just wandered off?

[yellowdoggie]

I found it in my sofa cushions.

[reno1190]

2010 drop to 0