VIDEO STORY: Made up your mind who to vote for? Maybe it's because you like the looks of the candidate. Or maybe it's because the candidate looks a little like you, even if you don't realize it. In a soon-to-be-published paper, Stanford professors say that people are subconsciously swayed by candidates who share their facial features.

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A poll conducted in partnership with Stanford suggests that Barack Obama could lose a close election to John McCain because of voters' feelings about race.

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Research by Jon Krosnick, professor of communication, helps solve the mystery of why pre-election polls were so wrong in the January 2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary.

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