Christopher Lohse, a Master's student at Southern Connecticut State University, has released a detailed study on what will surely be a fun bit of conversation for all you students and your conservative relatives during holiday dinners.

Lohse says his study is no joke. The thesis draws on a survey of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations during the 2004 presidential election. Lohse's study, backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person's psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush.

Obviously, there's much more to study about this before anything can be said to be 100% conclusive (but honestly, can't we all agree this is vital research important to the well-being of our nation?) but it's nice to see that people are finally providing the scientific proof to the previously-unverified (but not very subtle) idea that you'd have to be nuts to support President Bush's right-wing agenda.