Sun TV: Jodie Emery Supports Liberals Despite Campaign Red Light
POT TV - Jodie Emery joins Sun TV #39;s Brian Lilley to discuss the Liberal Party #39;s red-lighting of her candidacy in Vancouver East. http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca...
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Sarah Palin: #39;It Is You Liberals Whom Are Sexist and Such! #39;
Sarah Palin continues to bring us her latest greatest hits from this year #39;s Iowa Freedom Summit... This clip from the Majority Report, live M-F at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Major...
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Young Liberals of Canada: Commit to Vote challenge
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Local residents react as they listen to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speak during a town hall meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, in Ames, Iowa. Sanders, as both a liberal and independent, is in two groups that showed low death rates in a new study. If his supporters share those traits -- and some yet-to-be-determined healthy traits that accompany those political leanings -- they might live longer, too.(Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)
Liberals live longer than conservatives in the United States, a new study suggests.
The results come as a surprise because previous research has consistently found that conservatives in other countries and Republicans in the United States report being happier and healthier traits usually linked to longer lives. Also, communities with high conservative or Republican election turnouts tend to have lower death rates.
But previous U.S. studies did not separate political ideology from party affiliation or look at whether conservatives actually died at a slower clip than liberals of similar education and income, says Roman Pabayo, a community health researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The new study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, does all that and gives the edge to liberals.
"We were surprised," says Pabayo, who led the study as a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. But, he says, the results are believable because they depend on individual death records a "more valid measure" than the self-reports on health and the community death rates used in previous studies.
The new study included more than 32,000 adults who identified themselves as Democrats, Republicans, independents or other, and as liberal, moderate or conservative.
Researchers were able to track which of them died, and how quickly, over an average period of 15 years.
Results: Self-proclaimed conservatives and moderates were 6% more likely to die during follow-up than self-proclaimed liberals with otherwise similar traits, including age, sex and socioeconomic status. When sorted by party, Republicans and Democrats had similar death rates; independents had lower death rates.
The study included what people said about their health and happiness, but those factors did not seem to explain the differences, Pabayo says. Republicans claimed to be healthier and happier, just as they did in previous studies; conservatives claimed to be happier, but not healthier.
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Surprising study: Liberals might outlive conservatives
By Randy Dotinga HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 28, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Liberals are in luck when it comes to longevity, new research contends.
Compared to people with conservative and moderate political ideologies, liberals were less likely to die over the course of a 30-year review. But party lines did not determine life span, with Independents faring better than Republicans and Democrats, according to the study published Jan. 28 in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
Researchers not involved with the study were divided over what -- if anything -- the findings proved.
While the study authors tried to account for the influence of factors like race, education level and income, they didn't have any data regarding life choices such as diet, smoking and exercise. Liberals and Independents could simply be living more healthy lifestyles than other people, or the connection may be a coincidence, the researchers noted.
To complicate matters, liberals lived longer than Democrats.
Still, "there's got to be something going on," said study author Roman Pabayo, an assistant professor with the School of Community Health Sciences at the University of Nevada at Reno. Political views, he said, are "definitely a marker for something."
Researchers know a bit about how ideologies affect lives. According to Pabayo, "liberals are more likely to look at inequality in a negative way, while conservatives are considered more likely to be happier." But there's been little research into how political views may affect how long people live.
For the new study, Pabayo and his colleagues tracked almost 33,000 adults in the United States for about three decades. The researchers followed the volunteers, who joined the study between 1976 and 2008, for an average of 15 years.
The participants answered questions about their political views, although they didn't fit easily into boxes: Liberals weren't necessarily Democrats, and conservatives weren't necessarily Republicans. The study didn't analyze where their views fit along the political spectrum; it was only based on what the participants thought of themselves.