Bush campaign plays on instinctual fear of death

Go read this article about a study of the fear of death and peoples subsequent leadership preferences. Here is a snippet:
"The volunteers were aged from 18 into their 50s and described themselves as ranging from liberal to deeply conservative. No matter what a person's political conviction, thinking about death made them tend to favor Bush, Solomon said. Otherwise, they preferred Kerry.
"I think this should concern anybody," Solomon said. "If I was speaking lightly, I would say that people in their, quote, right minds, unquote, don't care much for President Bush and his policies in Iraq."
He wants voters to be aware of psychological pressures and how they are used."
 
Link: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5815889&pageNumber=1
 
Now think about the, I admit possibly paranoid possibility, that Bush and Co. might stage an aborted terror threat (they would just have to stage a threat) during their own convention to drum up support for their war mongering policies and sway viewers to perceive their own speeches in a better light.

Buit even barring that possibility look back at how many times the Bush campaign and administration uses the fear of terrorism to jam through any corporate or conservative-friendly legislation or regulation they can. They conveniently announce arrests and threat warnings at crucial times. They constantly hammer the point that their endless "war on terrorism" needs Bush at its head.  How else would the civil-liberties-suppressing Patriot Act have ever come into reality?

On a side note, the weird thing about this Reuters article is that the scientist qouted in it works in a college in my own hometown!