"Irregardless" isn't a word.

"Conservatives tend to crave order and structure in their lives, and are more consistent in the way they make decisions. Liberals, by contrast, show a higher tolerance for ambiguity and complexity, and adapt more easily to unexpected circumstances."

This is simply "crap" talk that they wish was true.

I know far too many successful conservative buisness owners are successful because they adapt to unexpected circumstances.  And since when was order and structure bad.   What nitwits!

More to the study - Liberals lie more than do conservatives - and indeed it probably does have to do with how the brain is wired.

First subject: The Clinton's.

Former staunch Clinton supporter, Hollywood mogul David Geffen, Feb. 2007 -"Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clinton's] do it with such ease, it’s troubling."

Oh, there's a study for just about everything, but often enough that what gets widely reported is only side of the discussion.

Not that any elitist liberal writers have sensed an urgent need to connect the dots and write the story, but there have been recent scientific studies which suggest that the amount of white matter in the brain has a lot to do with both the thought process and with truth telling. How's that? Allow me to quote:

How's that? Allow me to quote:

A USC study has found the first proof of structural brain abnormalities in people who habitually lie, cheat and manipulate others.

While previous research has shown that there is heightened activity in the prefrontal cortex - the area of the brain that enables most people to feel remorse or learn moral behavior - when normal people lie, this is the first study to provide evidence of structural differences in that area among pathological liars...

...The liars had significantly more "white matter" and slightly less "gray matter" than those they were measured against, Raine said.

Specifically, liars had a 25.7 percent increase in prefrontal white matter compared to the antisocial controls and a 22 percent increase compared to the normal controls. Liars had a 14.2 percent decrease in prefrontal gray matter compared to normal controls.

More white matter - the wiring in the brain - may provide liars with the tools necessary to master the complex art of deceit, Raine said.

"Lying takes a lot of effort," he said.

From researchers from the University of California, Irvine and the University of New Mexico:

Gray [matter] is central to processing information and plays a vital role in aiding skills such as mathematics, map-reading, and intellectual thought. White matter connects the brain's processing centers and is central to emotional thinking, use of language, and the ability to do more than one thing at once.

White matter has to do more with the wiring in the brain (how it communicates and at what speed), while gray matter [brain cells] has more to do with actual IQ.

Interestingly, studies indicate that those with more white matter tend to be more liberal (teachers, writers, journalists etc.). The study suggested that women have more white matter than men.

Bottom line: Liberals lie more than conservatives - because they simply have a more difficult time making a decision. I expect the examples should not be too difficult to locate.

Take Madison as an example. They continuously elect the same officials over and over, yet complain of the same problems. So, if the "progressives" here keep electing the same officials, does that make them "rigid and stubborn"?

When did it become "intellectual" to care for the elderly, care for children, "feel peoples pain"? That's common sense, and, if you're a normal human being, it's what you do.

I judge a person's intellect with what is done, not all on what is said. It's in the eye of the beholder to determine whether Politician A is intelligent because they "feel the need that everyone has a RIGHT to healthcare (with tax hikes and uncontrollable legislation), or Politician B, who believes that people should be able to AFFORD insurance that isn't legislated by the government.

But hey, I'm just an ignorant hispanic redneck in Wisconsin...

"...it depends on what the meaning of is, is......"

Ever had an argument with a liberal, isn't that all you needed to no about ones mental capacity

 If liberals are so much smarter, why don't they push for some type literacy or aptitude test for voters? Surely imbeciles, morons, and idiots have no business voting right? ... RIGHT??!!

hee hee... there would never be another dim rat elected to anything.

 "If you don't read a newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read a newspaper, you are mis-informed."-Mark Twain

I look at it this way: conservatives want to "conserve" the ideas of our founding fathers and the Constitution. Liberals want to "change" the ideas of our founding fathers.

Conservatives believe in discipline and hard work whereas liberals believe in welfare.

Conservatives can think about the "bigger picture" such as God, morality, human sanctity, etc. Liberals can think about homosexuality as "normal" or abortion as "acceptable" or handouts as "expected"

Yeah, liberals are the smart ones for sure.

I've created many surveys and polls and I want to offer a few hints about what a reader of polls should be aware of in reading poll results.

Before one can "understand" what the results of a poll truly signify or what they are actually measuring, poll readers should be aware of the following:

1. Who is paying for the poll and what are they really trying to measure?
2. What are the poll questions, specifically, and how are the questions related to one another?
3. Has the poll be field tested before being administered to a larger universe?
4. How to the questions interelate, i.e., what weight is given to certain questions, what questions are "connected" to other questions etc.
5. What is the internal reliability of the questions?
6. What statistical algorithym is being used to interprete the results?
7. What is the working hypothesis of the poll?
8. Who is interpreting the poll results?
9. Who is the intended audience of the poll?

There are other issues to consider, of course, but these are issues one should know before one can truly understand what's going on in the poll. The problem is that the answers to these questions are often proprietary, and the general public is unaware of them. Hence, not all poll results are what some would want you to believe they are. An unethical poll "producer" can create exactly the results the client wants to create.

Generally, I trust no poll unless I know the answers to most of these questions.