Subliminal persuasion in voting??

Question

I am not affiliated, I am not very political, I went to vote in the primarys today with two people in mind. I had to choose between a Republican or Democratic ballod. One was blue and one was pink. I choose the pink for Democratic, but, if I did not know any better I would have choos the more popular color, blue. What do you think about the color thing?????

I paid attention and knew who I wanted to vote for, hte point is that I could not vote for the three people because they were on different ballots. I do not make uneducated votes (but they all are in some way). I voted based on the person that had specific answers and specific principles not the general statements that are the given. THE POINT IS THAT MANY PEOPLE ARE TOLD TO VOTE JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN AND TO THOSE WHO DO AND ARE UNAFILIATED (YES MAYBE NOT ENOUGH TO COUNT REALLY ) COLOR COULD INFLUENCE A CHOICE IT ALL i AM SAYING.

Answer 1

Sweat pea, this is actually an excellent question.

(He didn't say he voted based on color. What he wanted to state was that there shouldn't be any color difference!)

In my opinion there shouldn't be any color difference for the exact reasons you state in your question.

It has been scientifically proven that people in an election tend to choose candidates that are either on the first or last position. No doubt colors influence people's decisions as well (see http://hypnoticmindtraining.com/influence for more such researches -- a home study course)

The vast majority of people go vote undecided of what candidate they want. Many don't even know who are the candidates and what do they represent (sad, I know, but it's the truth). When they come to the voting booth, there's where they make their decision. And as stated above, the position of the candidate is crucial. So is probably the color with which his/her name is written with.

Again, great question.

Answer 2

If your only influence in voting is the color of the ballot, What are you voting for? Who are you voting for? Do you have a clue about whats going on or whats at stake? So did you just vote to have your taxes raised and not know it? Did you just put in a candidate who is for abortion? against abortion? Are you in favor of abortion or against it? Did you just put in your 2 cents worth for some one who wants to let al Qaeda have constitutional rights? Do you have any idea what it was exactly that you just did? did you make a mistake? Did it all come out all right?

Do us all a favor, next time do some home work and know what your doing in there. YOU owe it to ME to do a good job. And yes YOU can count on ME to do the same. Otherwise you have no business in or even near a voting booth.

Voting may be your right. The word right means responsibility. You have a right to vote but you also have a responsibility to do it with some idea of what your doing.

Answer 3

Oh, come on, if anything it is the other way around and alot more obvious than a freaking color!!

A friend of mine has always thought of herself as a Democrat. She was recently questioned on major party-line issues and 9 of 10 she actually agreed with the predominately Republican view. She was shocked. There is this subconscious thought out there that Republicans are bad. She obviously didn't come up with this thought on her own seeing as how she agreed with them on the issues. But, it was real. She struggled with it and was totally embarrassed to admit to having Republican views. And, unfortunately, most of her friends are Democrats and convinced her that this couldn't possibly be right. She *must* actually be just more moderate than she thought.

It wasn't at all because of our completely biased and agenda ridden media. From news to TV shows to Movies. Stars even get on their soap boxes tell us how we should think. It is popular to be Democrat and unpopular to be Republican. That's all there is to it. It is the most common type of persuasion, if you are paying attention... "Come on, everyone's doing it."

Answer 4

if you vote according to the color of the ballot, then you should quickly exit the voting booth, and egress the voting area as soon as humanly possible without, i repeat, without casting a vote. You may not be stupid, but you are certainly not qualified to cast a ballot. Who knows. Some people may be that stupid

Answer 5

Here's another scenario for subliminal persuasion in voting. Of course this is just made up and could never really happen:

Within two or three weeks of the mid-term elections, there is another terrorist event in which many Americans die. The subliminal message is, "We told you so! Republicans are the only ones who can protect you! Put all your faith in God W. Bush! He and other Republicans are your anti-terrorist superheroes."

Such subliminal persuasion, I repeat, is only made up. No such event will take place!!!!

But remember: You read it here first.

Answer 6

I don't know, but you have the right idea not to take anything for granted. We need to keep questioning everything we see and hear especially on the news. Here is some interesting reading for you: http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/FINAL%20REGAIN%20UNLINKED/huxley%20prop.%20under%20dict..htm