WASHINGTON: Experts in body language agreed Thursday that Mitt Romney
bested Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential debate when it came to
wooing voters gestures as well as words.
Where the Democratic incumbent perhaps came across as weary and
off-balance, his Republican challenger had clearly upped his game for
the first televised clash of the alpha dogs in the run-up to the Nov. 6
vote.
“He was so dramatically different ... He was authentically passionate
and thrilled at the battle,” said Patti Wood, author of “Snap: Making
the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma.”
Typically, she told AFP in a telephone interview, Romney in public has
tended to say something, and then give a delayed supporting gesture –
something humans are hard-wired to interpret as a sign of a lack of
authenticity.
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