Posted on 06/04/2006 6:33:06 AM PDT by Popman
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 29, 2006 -- A new behavior prediction tool is forecasting a landslide victory for former Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the 2008 presidential election. However, should Hillary Clinton gain the Democratic nomination, any potential Republican challenger will win the presidency.
These are among the surprising findings reported by Dr. James N. Herndon, a media psychologist with Media Psychology Affiliates. Using a new research tool called Affective Encryption Analysis, Dr. Herndon led an investigation into the likely outcome of the 2008 Presidential election.
Affective Encryption Analysis is a new behavior forecasting tool that looks at how our feelings and emotions can influence our long-term actions, explains Dr. Herndon. Traditional survey techniques are not very good at predicting trends. Affective Encryption Analysis was developed to dig deeper into the emotional factors that control our future behaviors.
Although created as a potential tool for the intelligence community, Affective Encryption Analysis has seen its early uses in the political arena.
Voter behavior is not primarily issue-driven, states Dr. Herndon. Subtle emotional factors drive our actions at the ballot box. When we decided to study the potential outcome of the 2008 Presidential election, we had no preconceptions about what wed find. Nonetheless, there were some surprises.
Among the surprises was the overall weakness of potential Democratic presidential challengers.
Despite the widespread public dissatisfaction with the George W. Bush administration, our results showed even greater ill-feelings toward potential Democratic challengers, says Dr. Herndon. But there was one exception: Al Gore.
With a predictive accuracy of 93%, our results showed that Al Gore would easily defeat any Republican challenger in 2008. However, he is the only Democrat on the scene today who has the ability to defeat the likely Republican challengers, who we believe will be either John McCain or Jeb Bush.
Results were not rosy for Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton would suffer a disastrous defeat at the hands of any Republican who receives the nomination, states Dr. Herndon.
Should Al Gore decide not to seek the 2008 nomination, the Democrats have their work cut out for them, according to Dr. Herndon.
Our results suggest that a potentially successful Democratic nominee may be lurking in the entertainment industry. Does this sound strange? Maybe. But when it comes to politics, we may have to get used to a future full of surprises.
Media Psychology Affiliates is a media research and analysis firm based in Los Angeles and Coburg, Germany. It can be found on the web at
Straight from The Onion
Good.When Gore reads the poll he will be emboldened to make ever MORE outrageous statements.Which will turn off more people than before.
I love this sentence. Loony tunes analysis.
A rather silly one, at that.
Did anyone notice that Diebold voting machines were not mentioned in the article? What a bunch of maroons...
Question #1..exactly *who* is Dr Herndon? Is he,or as has he been in the past,active in politics and,if so,in which Party? Exactly *how* does Media Psychology Affiliates make its money? Who are its customers?
This all sounds vaguely familiar.
" I see a tall dark and strangely mysterious man in your future.....etc. etc."
Here we go again.
Yeah, like 2004 exit polls data
People thought that it was loony for an actor to run for president once before. I seem to recall that that actor's candidacy worked out okay.
Dr. Herndon, publish ALL your predictions and then see how the real world turns out.
Remember the 2004 exit polls?
Run, Hillary, run!
I'm all giddy! Brad or Angelina?
Ronald Reagan..........very true and Thank God for it, but he happened to be a very successful governor first before he ran for POTUS.
The article says an Democratic nominee may be lurking in the entertainment industry. as in right now, straight from Hollyweird to the White house, maybe a liberal wet dream, but isn't going to happen any time soon
Affective Encryption Analysis is a new behavior forecasting tool that looks at how our feelings and emotions can influence our long-term actions,
I guess you can't use this method to see how Republican's will choose their canidates, since it dosen't measure facts but just how people feel.
Does the PR in PRweb stand for Peer Reviewed?
A rather silly one, at that.
Now if it had been a woolly worm study someone would be in trouble.
Of course not! Their baby will be the next POTUS
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