Every presidential compaign since the era of television campaigning (ie: the Kennedy versus Nixon contest of 1960) has gone to the more charismatic of the two leading candidates. One could argue that the American voter ultimately does not decide on the basis of political affiliation, foreign policy, economic strategy, or any of the ostensible “serious” issues on the table.<\/p>\n
No, what the contests between Kennedy\/Nixon, Johnson\/Goldwater, Nixon\/Humphrey, Nixon\/McGovern, Carter\/Ford, Reagan\/Carter, Reagan\/Mondale, Bush\/Dukakis, Clinton\/Bush, Clinton\/Dole, Bush\/Gore and Bush\/Kerry all had in common is this: The one who projected the most charisma during that campaign cycle was the one who got to spend the next four years in the White House.<\/p>\n
Of course this may all be mere coincidence…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every presidential compaign since the era of television campaigning (ie: the Kennedy versus Nixon contest of 1960) has gone to the more charismatic of the two leading candidates. One could argue that the American voter ultimately does not decide on the basis of political affiliation, foreign policy, economic strategy, or any of the ostensible “serious” … Continue reading “Charisma”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}