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GOP Congresswomen More Feminine?

A pair of UCLA researchers says partisanship is all in the face. Dubbing it the “Michele Bachmann effect,” their study of the women of Congress finds that Republicans are more likely than Democrats to have stereotypically feminine facial features. The study’s author, Colleen Carpinella, said in a Thursday news release that the correlation “increases the more conservative the lawmaker’s voting record [is].” Researchers came to their conclusion by scanning portraits of members of Congress in a computer modeling program. The program determined how many typically feminine or masculine characteristics each face possessed/Judy Kurtz, In the Know blog from The Hill. More here.

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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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