personal political bias

So, I have to do a research proposal for my research and statistics class, i chose the effects of personal political biases on accepting factual data. Basically in a nut shell I have to "convince" the reader to fund the study presented in the paper. I'm wondering where I can find some information to put in my paper which basically discusses political biases and such, basically i have to weigh it down with some previous information on the subject and I have no idea really where to begin.

Many in the CIA thought it was shaky evidence. They were ignored.

Google curveball.

are ideal areas to focus on in your study.

If i were selling this idea you have, i'd bone up
on drugs war statistics (see DU's drugs war ammunition dump).
And then interview someone on camera, recording a video
of a person who, during a dialogue learns about the fallacy
that they preconcieved of (maybe) as a remotely effective
drugs war. The social dissonance is so extreme, o guess what you
are calling "personal political bias", i call "social dissonance".
looking backwards up the microscope, what is personal, is social,
and you seem to be studying the social dynamics of propaganda.

So just find an area where the propaganda is grossly out of phase with
the truth, and interview someone on camera bringing them down out of
rhetoric land on to truth ground, letting someone see the value of
the research, as a social process well... or approach the same research
as a list of numbers, questionairres, that allow you to ask a set of
people what they "believe"... but ahhh, i only trust an interview
on camera myself, as everything else allows the researcher to
pawn the half truth that people are not dynamic, mutable, and not
subject to such simplistic pathologies, so much depending on the
mantle one must wear to survive, to appear like the herd.

You#ve inspired me thinkin' about this.. thanks...

my topic is basicly summed up by the question "do avrage citizens accept or reject facts presented by political figures, on the basis of some internal political bias?"

i was thinking of proposing a survey where the participants will state their political ideaology, and then over a corse of a few weeks watch videos of lesser knowen political figures of both parties, where the figures make statments based on facts, and the participants will have to deside weather what the figure said was true or not, in two instances, one where the figure had a stated politicle stance(R or D) one where there is no stance showen. this in the effort to see weather the person is swaying their opinion based on what political party the figure displays him or herself as