CIP and US Presidential Elections
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The American electorate intuitively senses the phenomenon of complexity
of information processing (CIP) in political candidates. Without
exception, American voters elected the presidential candidate with
higher CIP, or current potential, in the cases studied. When current
potential proved equal, the candidate with higher future potential (the
younger of the two) emerged victorious. When current potential and
future potential were even, as was the case of Bush versus Gore, 2000,
the closest vote in election history resulted.
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