No kidding, if you want to chop your traffic, lower your bandwidth costs, and get people to avoid your site, or not read your post it's easy:
Put "Mitt Romney" in the headline.
Mitt Romney, Internet buzzkill: Why you won’t click on this article
...The site ran two sets of posts about the early lives of President Obama and Mitt Romney, and promoted them in the same way. One was about their childhoods; the other showed them as young men. The Obama posts attracted vastly more attention, with more than 130,000 views in total. The Romney posts drew fewer than 20,000...
http://tinyurl.com/6r54uqs
Good to know. You might notice I didn't put "Mitt Romney" in the title of this thread. If I had, most of you probably wouldn't have read it ;)