We all knew this, but should rate this story at yahoo
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/terror_warnings_popularity
By WILLIAM KATES, Associated Press Writer
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - When the government issues a terror warning, the president's approval rating increases an average of nearly three points, a Cornell University sociologist says.
"The social theories predict it, and anecdotally we know it to be true. Now we have statistical science to confirm it," said Robb Willer, assistant director of Cornell's Sociology and Small Groups Laboratory.
On average, a terror warning prompted a 2.75 point increase in President George Bush (news - web sites)'s approval rating the following week, said Willer, who published his study in Current Research in Social Psychology, a peer-reviewed online journal.
Rate this thing up, comment on their message board, and lets drive this point home so that Ridge keeps his grubby little hands off of the technicolor bullshit system until it really is necessary. It's time for Ridge to act like a responsible adult and make Bush go cold turkey on his fear fix.