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[questor]

With the Presidential elections coming up in 2008, I would like to start a discussion on what may be a biochemical difference in human beings. My question is this: why are approximately 40% of Americans liberal and 40 %
conservative with the rest somewhere in between? How can two people view the same event and have totally different perceptions of what occurred and the sequelae thereof ? Politics and political campaigning are highly emotionally charged events and create many arguments and hard feelings
among people otherwise peaceful and placid. Our country is about to undergo
a tough political war with the winner being faced with the monumental job to lead us through some perilous and uncharted waters. Since the opposing candidates have such differing world views, I can't help but think there has to be a basic difference in the biochemical processes of their brains. I call this
''different wiring''. I have googled ''Left brain, Right brain''thinking and am aware that the brain halves seem to be specialized with the right brains artistic and idealistic, the left mathematical and more rational. It would seem that if the world's largest business is to be run properly you need to have a large portion of rationality with a seasoning of idealism. I can envision the time when all our politicians will have to have their brains scanned so as to fit the activity which they are supposed to perform. I would encourage comments from those who may be familiar with recent brain research or from those of you who would find this a subject of interest.