When terror bell rings, George Bush smiles

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So when are we going to Orange level again?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/874678.cms

ANI< TUESDAY, OCTOBER 05, 2004 09:55:32 PM >

WASHINGTON: An article published in the Current Research in Social Psychology journal has revealed that when the US government issues a terrorist warning, presidential approval ratings jump by leap and bounds.

Robb Willer, the assistant director of the Sociology and Small Groups Laboratory at Cornell, tracked 26 instances of federal agency report that showed an increased threat of terrorist activity in the United States between February 2001 and May 2004.

Simultaneously he also tracked the 131 Gallup Polls in the same period, and found presidential approval ratings quite positive in relation to the warnings on terror...