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Policy shifts in the presidential debates
1Department of Psychology and Counseling, Alabama A&G University, Normal 35762, USA.
Psychological Reports
|July 2, 2002
Abstract:
To assess whether hearing a debate will be followed by a change in potential voters' ratings of candidates' policy views, 45 undergraduates completed a questionnaire immediately before and after viewing the third presidential debate of 2000 between Bush and Gore. Analysis indicated that agreement with Gore's domestic policy showed a significant shift of 1.2 from pretest to posttest.