PERRY’S ON-CAMERA GAFFE MAY DOOM HIS CANDIDACY
November 10, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Once again television has played a crucial role in a presidential candidacy. Just as sweating on camera during his debate with John F. Kennedy may have cost Richard Nixon the presidency in 1960, a memory freeze that made former Republican frontrunner Rick Perry look foolish during Wednesday’s Republican debate would seem to have doomed his […]
WILL AUDIENCES AT DEBATES SWAY VOTERS?
September 23, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
The reaction of audiences at the upcoming political debates may prove to be as influential as comments made by the candidates themselves. A case in point may have become evident during Thursday night’s Republican debate when Stephen Hill, a brawny soldier serving in Iraq, asked the candidates, presumably in a satellite hookup or pretaped video, […]