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The Nixon-Kennedy Debate: How Perception Trumped Competence
The first televised presidential debate led to a discrepancy between perceived winners because of how the candidates sounded and looked/nNixon appeared to have good vocal power but looked like a loser/nNixon believed he lost the election based on the first few seconds of the debate/nNixon gave away his competence in the first few seconds of the debate and appeared weak on camera/nMost people don't know that Nixon had just injured his knee on the campaign trail