It seems I'm not the only one
In a potential
stumbling block for his Presidential ambitions, a new study indicates that the
average American can stand only four seconds of exposure to Senator Ted Cruz,
the Texas Republican.
The study, conducted
by University of Minnesota researchers during Tuesday night’s Republican debate,
required subjects to be connected to electrodes to measure their tolerance for
the senator.
Within four seconds
of watching Cruz, the majority of participants begged to be released from the
experiment, researchers reported.
In a more encouraging
finding for the senator, when the same research subjects were exposed to Cruz
with his voice muted, they could tolerate him for up to six seconds, the data
showed.
According to the
University of Minnesota’s Davis Logsdon, who supervised the study, the results
portend “significant challenges ahead” for Cruz’s campaign. “It’s hard to get
your message out if, four seconds in, people just start screaming
uncontrollably, as many of our participants did last night,” he
said.
A campaign spokesman
for Cruz, however, was unfazed by the research. “A study conducted last summer
showed that people could only stand Ted for three seconds, so we’re trending in
the right direction,” the spokesman said.
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