No joke. Obama literally has a drug advantage over his opponents and even arch right wingers are doing the drug, getting high on Obama.

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No joke. Obama literally has a drug advantage over his opponents and even arch right wingers are doing the drug, getting high on Obama.

The pundits are gushing about Obama.

Joe Scarborough “My blackberry was going—a lot of my Republican friends were saying, “I’ve got chills.”

Patrick Buchanan: "You can’t resist. It touches the heart."

Chris Matthews: "Sometimes people are able to say that things that get people willing to charge machine gun nests—it’s so powerful you’re willing to give your life for it."

Dan Rather "He could become the Tiger Woods of American Politics."

There's no doubt about it. Watching the Obama tidal wave can easily give you thrills-- the frisson-- that chill up the back of your neck.

Obama does it by touching the heart, by creating, in our minds, a vision of faith and hope successfully challenging incredible odds.

He put in words the night of the Iowa primary and it was like lightning.

I felt it-- the thrill, the chill up the back of the neck, and my heart was clearly touched.

These phenomena of the touched heart-- the glow in the chest, the tingling feeling, the thrill up the back of the neck-- they're not unique to Obama and they are absolutely drug induced-- more on how a bit later.

Parents experience heartwarming moments when they watch their kids peacefully sleep.

Movie makers strive to create scenes that touch the heart and send that frisson-- the shiver up the spine, because that's what turns movies into box office hits.

Parade-goers and music listeners experience chills up the spine at stirring moments.

Lovers have moments of thrills and chills.

Advertisers create mini-stories that touch the heart- to build brand identity, like the credit card ads that end with "priceless."

And every political candidate, if he or she is smart, tries to connect to voters from heart to heart, telling personal stories, evoking images that touch the heart, inspire, and at the very best, send shivers up the spine.

Obama could be the best at this in decades. Bill Clinton makes people feel personally attended to and liked. But Obama goes further. He evokes the magic of the thrill.

The Drug in the Thrill
We know that thrills and chills involve very specific body chemistry. One Stanford psychopharmacologist, Avram Goldstein, discovered that these feelings are mediated by endorphins, the natural opium-like chemicals that the body produces.

Goldstein found that Music, parades, moving moments in books and movies could all produce these chills up the back of the neck.
The research got massive media coverage, back in the eighties, because his research found that sex came in third or fourth among the experiences that produced these thrills. Music came in first.

So GOldstein had people listen to music that gave them thrills. Then, he gave them Naloxone-- a drug that blocks opiates. It's actually used in emergency rooms to treat heroin overdoses.
When people who usually experienced thrills listening music took the Naloxone, the thrills were blocked. That proved the endorphin/natural opiate connection.

Hillary Clinton doesn't have it. John Edwards doesn't have it. Neither of them can get people pumping endorphins, giving themselves a buzz, just by listening to a speech.

Obama is master conductor of voter edorphin moments. This is a very hard ability to beat.

But.... Goldstein found that only about half the subjects he studied actually experienced thrills of any kind.

That means that for the other half of the population, Obama will have to reach them the old fashioned way-- talking issues, convincing that he has the best package of personality, experience, values, ideas, visions... Still, being able to reach half the population, to reach directly to their neuroemotional system-- that's an ability any candidate would give his best campaign manager for.

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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