This essay argues that an analysis of audience response to Presidential debates reveals at least 6 criteria which influence audience decisions about a debate winner. Thus, without explicit reference to decision criteria, surveys which attempt to discover viewers' perceptions of a debate winner will be misleading.
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Vancil et al. (1984) studied this question.
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