"Study: Terror Warnings Up Approval Ratings"

[GreenPartyVoter]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - When the government issues a terror warning, the president's approval rating increases an average of nearly three points, a Cornell University sociologist says.

"The social theories predict it, and anecdotally we know it to be true. Now we have statistical science to confirm it," said Robb Willer, assistant director of Cornell's Sociology and Small Groups Laboratory.

On average, a terror warning prompted a 2.75 point increase in President George Bush's approval rating the following week, said Willer, who published his study in Current Research in Social Psychology, a peer-reviewed online journal.

Robert Greene, a professor of history and communication at Cazenovia College, said he did not doubt the correlation, but considered the small increase barely noteworthy.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20041026/D85VC1G80.html

Editing to add the links that google put up with this article. *sigh*

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Any time now...

Orange Terra Lert by Friday? Ya think?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Or a big fireball in one of our more liberal cities. :^(

[Steelangel]

3. Indeed.. here's chart

As you see, it works so well.. I will not surprise if Bush will use the 'terror alert' to boost his approval rating 12 hours - 2 days before election day.

[Awsi Dooger]

4. I heard Katrina VDH mention this a few weeks ago

The editor of The Nation. I would likely butcher her last name.

Still, if Bush lets this happen too close to the election it will smell of phony desperation. I expected it two weeks out.