{"id":1533,"date":"2011-04-12T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2011-04-12T21:13:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T02:13:51","slug":"five-myths-about-the-leaders-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"Five Myths about the Leaders&#8217; Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Jon Pammett<\/strong><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>MYTH <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It      is a pivotal moment in the campaign.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>REALITY. There are no pivotal moments in most campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 MYTH <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">It      is the time in the campaign when people start paying attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>REALITY\u00a0\u00a0 People who watch the debates are more likely to be people who are interested in politics in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MYTH\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Leaders in the debates are vulnerable      to making a big mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>REALITY\u00a0 All the leaders usually do pretty well in the debates, because they are so well prepared, and the questions are so predictable.<\/p>\n<p>4,\u00a0 MYTH\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Leaders in the debates are trying to      get voters to switch over to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>REALITY\u00a0 The debates are all about reinforcement, where the idea is not to deter people from voting for their party or candidate if they are otherwise inclined to do so.<\/p>\n<p>5. MYTH\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Debates have a big impact on the      election result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>REALITY\u00a0 The debates have very little impact on the election result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Pammett MYTH It is a pivotal moment in the campaign. REALITY. There are no pivotal moments in most campaigns. 2.\u00a0 MYTH It is the time in the campaign when people start paying attention. REALITY\u00a0\u00a0 People who watch the debates are more likely to be people who are interested in politics in the first place. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,18,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-election-2011","category-election-2011-campaign-strategy","category-election-2011-faculty-links","category-election-2011-media-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}