Posted on 02/01/2015 2:50:21 AM PST by SMGFan
It may be because of their lifestyle, the researchers said. But being Democrat or Republican didn't matter much
Sorry, right-wingers: a new study suggests liberals live longer than conservatives and moderates.
But affiliating with either the Democratic or Republican parties didn't really affect death date: Members from both kicked the bucket about the same time, according to the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health study.
Researchers studied nearly 33,000 Americans from 1976 to 2008. Despite party lines, those who identified as liberal outlived moderates and conservatives, even when variables were adjusted. And independents were much less likely to die within the study period than nonindependent peers
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They are probably using voter registrations as data. Lots of 120 year-olds and up democrats still alive.
...And most Leprechauns can be found napping inside the left ear of a female Unicorn.
I do see one problem with an attempt to conduct such a survey....lots of dead Democrats sill vote, so technically, they are still living beyond death.
Not that I want to upset any of these dead voters...but you guys need to “get a life” and move on.
Maybe Satan is keeping them alive so they can do as much harm as possible. Look at Jimmy Carter, for instance ...
What the hell, most of them don’t have to work three jobs to support their families, and they get free medical off the backs of Republicans..
Satan rewards his servants?
Based on how the world is now, I don’t want to live longer.
And the bad live on forever.
Possibly because they’re in no danger of working themselves to death.
Liberals don’t live longer—it just seems that way.
Liberalism is a mark of religiosity?
Fine by me. I’m 58 now... If I make it to 70, I’ll have been given a full life and anything beyond that is a blessing.
To Liberals I give the Vulcan curse: Live long and miserable. The associated hand gesture contains just one upraised finger.
Walking Dead zombies?
Well of course. Conservatives work their fingers to the bone and wear themselves out faster so liberals can live stress free. DUH!
Maybe it’s because chicks are liberal, chicks live longer?
Conservatives work...
The work hard to live longer they know what is waiting for them.
As this country sinks under the debt load caused by Liberals, it would serve them right to be old in a broke country.
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