title: Policy shifts in the presidential debates.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Counseling, Alabama A&G University, Normal 35762, USA.
authors.forename: Everton G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: McIntosh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011057:Politics; D011640:Public Policy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires