The Obama Baby Boom

If you were a Barack Obama supporter on November 4, election night erupted with something close to euphoria, once the call was made in his favor. And do you know what people do when they’re euphoric (and probably really drunk)? The get it on! Want proof? So many people were having some, er, private celebrations experts are predicting an ‘Obama baby boom.”

Hope and euphoria, says University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz, are a serious aphrodisiac. And voters under 30 went for Obama by a margin of 2 to 1. When you combine those two elements—randy people of child-bearing age—the likely result is what the online Urban Dictionary has already dubbed “Obama Babies” : children “conceived after Obama was proclaimed President, by way of celebratory sex.” “If the amount of alcohol, happy people and major functions on election night is any indication, I suspect we’ll indeed see a boom,” says 25-year-old Brandon Mendelson, a graduate student in Albany, N.Y., who says he changed his vote at the last minute because “I wanted to be able to tell our future children that we voted for Obama.” [Newsweek]

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