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Have you heard about the curious amount of fainting episodes that have occurred at Barack Obama rallies?

This video feature’s six different instances.

Much has been made of this throughout the blogging community. Comparisons to Elvis and Tom Jones are rampant.

From faintinggoats.com…

Fainting goats have a muscle condition, which is called myotonia congenita. This is a condition which occurs in many species, including humans. Myotonic animals have a change in some of the channels that occur in the outer membranes of skeletal muscle cells. These channels provide for the transfer of certain ions that control muscle contraction and relaxation. The result of this is that when muscles fire rapidly in a myotonic animal they cannot quickly relax, resulting in a prolonged contraction.

Myotonia has been extensively studied in humans, and somewhat less extensively in other species. It is an interesting condition, and is painless. The only consistent changes are the lack of muscle relaxation following contraction, and an increase in muscle mass over animals that lack the condition.

The myotonic condition is strictly muscular, and does not involve the nerves or the brain. The animals do not truly “faint” in any sense of the word, as they never lose consciousness because of the condition. They remain fully conscious.

Is Obama causing women to swoon ala Tom Jones and Elvis or, are myotonic women voting as a block?

Fainting Goat video…