Can You Guess a Person's Politics by Their Personality? Psychologist Team Says Yes

By Maria Luisa Tucker, AlterNet
Posted on October 29, 2008, Printed on October 29, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/105089/

If your office is a mess, you're known as a chatty Cathy, and you consider yourself hard to scare, then chances are, you will be voting for Obama in six days. But your neighbor, an optimistic clean freak who prides himself on the fact that he has woken up at 5 a.m. every day for the last 10 years, is a likely McCainiac.

It may sound a little like political palm reading, but some social psychologists say personality and biology may form the basis of a person's political leanings. While there's no Republican or Democrat gene, researchers are coming closer to pinpointing fundamental psychological and biological differences between conservatives and liberals.