Republicans, want to win? Then start flying your American flags now!

Remember how dark and foreboding the stage was at the Democrat Convention?  Dark and depressing... we the fact is that the mere SIGHT OF THE AMERICAN FLAG causes people to vote for the Republican candidate and the effect lasts for months!
However, here, also,  is where the clincher comes in, as it regards patriotism and the American Conservative movement embodied in the Republican Party.

However, here, also,  is where the clincher comes in, as it regards patriotism and the American Conservative movement embodied in the Republican Party.

The GOP typically champions freedom, liberty, and limited government, as the founding fathers intended. The following story, to that end, comes to us from a 2011 study (liberally suppressed) from none other than Harvard University, as reported by Paul Bedard , formerly of US News and World Report:

From the US News $ World Report archives:

Just a brief exposure to an image of the American flag shifts voters, even Democrats, to Republican beliefs, attitudes and voting behavior even though most don’t believe it will impact their politics, according to a new two-year study just published in the scholarly Psychological Science.

“What’s more, according to three authors from the University Chicago, Cornell University, and Hebrew University, the impact had staying power.

“A single exposure to an American flag resulted in a significant increase in participants’ Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs, and implicit and explicit attitudes, with some effects lasting 8 months,” the study found. “These results constitute the first evidence that nonconscious priming effects from exposure to a national flag can bias the citizenry toward one political party and can have considerable durability.”

Theirs is the first study to look at the political impact on Americans who have seen an American flag, and it seems to back up another recent Harvard University professor’s study that found that kids who attended a July 4th parade ended up leaning Republican when they grew up.

It’s also sure to prompt GOP presidential candidates to add more U.S. flags at their events and speeches.