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Summary: The Personal Electability Index (PEI) rates Joe Biden as more competitive than Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and in a general election matchup against Donald Trump.



Summary: Sen. Mitt Romney’s personality profile offers a glimpse into his underlying motives for voting to convict President Donald Trump on the impeachment article of abuse of power on Feb. 5, 2020. Specifically, Romney’s primary personality pattern — conscientiousness — induces him to be extraordinarily scrupulous in matters of morality and ethics, intolerant of deviance, and judgmental of those who do not uphold conventional rules and standards or follow the letter of the law.


Feb 4th, 2020

Summary: A vote-reporting debacle has delayed results in the 2020 Iowa caucuses. In the absence of results in the hours after the caucuses, Google Analytics offers a hint of public interest in Democratic presidential contenders.



Summary: Predicting President Donald Trump’s likely response to Iran’s anticipated retaliation for the targeted killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani, based on studies of Trump’s personality profile and leadership style conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics.



Summary: Amid stalled diplomacy, North Korea’s foreign ministry issued a veiled threat that it was preparing a surprise “Christmas gift” for the United States. How should the U.S. respond?


Oct 27th, 2019

Summary: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), was killed in a U.S. special forces operation in northwest Syria near the Turkish border, President Donald Trump announced.



Summary: Aubrey Immelman, Ph.D., director of the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, projects Donald Trump will win the 2020 U.S. presidential election, employing the Personal Electability Index (PEI), which has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential election since 1996 before Super Tuesday.



Summary: The Unit for the Study of Personality’s Presidential Election Index (PEI), which has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential election since 1996, predicts that Joe Biden will be a stronger candidate than Beto O’Rourke in a general election matchup with Donald Trump.



Summary: Psychological profiles of China’s President Xi Jinping and Democratic presidential candidates in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, including Vice President Joe Biden, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep. Beto O’Rouke, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.



Summary: Laura Ingraham, on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle” (March 20, 2019) responds to President Trump’s thoughtless, petty attack on the late U.S. senator and war hero John McCain.