the political power of faces

so i've read that our internal template for "beauty" is a weighted average of all of the faces that we've come across. i've also read that symmetry in faces is preferred, since evolutionarily we don't want mates with defective bodies because we don't want progeny with defective bodies.

and of course it makes sense that we vote for candidates with "views" most similar to our own. but with faces most similar to our own? wtf?

morph your face with a politico's and you're likely to be persuaded by him

especially read the first comment...now that's fucked up. all bush would have to do to get me to vote for him in ten years is make custom-designed ads that only get sent to my television, where his face is morphed with mine, and then do that to every american. hmm. maybe the comcast on-demand paradigm where content is individually piped to the home is a totalitarian plant!