Vice-Presidential Debate Research Articles

Hurricane Helene Brings Climate into the Spotlight in Vice Presidential Debate

J. D. Vance and Tim Walz clashed over whether climate change is real and what solutions should look like (and whether they’re needed at all).

Norms in English-to-Chinese Live Broadcast Simultaneous Interpreting: A Case Study on the 2020 United States Vice-presidential Debate

Norms in English-to-Chinese Live Broadcast Simultaneous Interpreting: A Case Study on the 2020 United States Vice-presidential Debate

Unmasking Logical Fallacies: An Analysis of The 2024 Indonesian Vice-Presidential Debates

The logical fallacies that emerged in the 2024 Indonesian vice-presidential candidate debates is interested. By analyzing debate through a descriptive qualitative approach and employing Damer's (2009) classification theory, the study evaluates the presence of unconvincing arguments in the discourse of the three vice-presidential candidates. Logical fallacies, which are errors in reasoning, can obscure listeners and impact comprehension and the quality of arguments in a debate. Data were collected by transcribing argumentative speeches from two YouTube videos of the debates. There were 120 utterances produced by the three vice-presidential candidates. From 120 utterances, 60 logical fallacies were found. The findings reveal that the most prevalent logical fallacies included red herrings (16.67%), where candidates diverted attention from relevant topics to irrelevant ones. Ad hominem attacks (11.67%) were also common. Additionally, appeals to authority (11.67%) cited influential figures to support his argument on "ecological repentance," without strengthening the logical foundation of his argument. This research underscores the importance of recognizing cognitive biases that can undermine argument objectivity. The study highlights the need for heightened awareness of rhetorical manipulation among speakers and audiences to foster a more critical and informed debate culture. The study contributes to political communication studies by providing insights into the rhetorical strategies used in Indonesian political debates and their implications for democratic engagement. The prevalence of logical fallacies points to the necessity for improved debate standards to enhance rational political discourse, ultimately benefiting the democratic process by encouraging informed and constructive participation

Gaya Komunikasi Gibran Rakabuming Raka dalam Debat Cawapres 2024 Putaran Keempat pada Channel Youtube Kompas TV

The 2024 presidential and vice-presidential election also be an opportunity for the public to actively participate in the democratic process. One issue concerns the communication style of vice-presidential candidate Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the fourth round of the vice-presidential debate. The aim of this study is to identify the communication style demonstrated by Gibran Rakabuming Raka during the discussion. The data used for this research was taken from Kompas TV programs on the YouTube channel. The theoretical approaches used include Gibran’s Communication Style Theory and Carl Gustav Jung’s Communication Style Approach to better understand the characteristics and dynamics of communication. The research method employed is descriptive qualitative with content analysis, analyzing data from the discussion videos which serve as the main source of information. The results show that Gibran Rakabuming Raka's communication style in the fourth round of the vice-presidential debate reflects a unique blend of control style theory and social style theory elements.

Sentiment Analysis towards the 2024 Vice Presidential Candidate Debate Using the Support Vector Machine Algorithm

In today’s digital era, social media plays an important role in disseminating information and influencing public opinion. For instance, YouTube. At the 2024 Vice Presidential Debate, YouTube became a medium where people gave various comments. This study aimed to analyze public sentiment through comments on the 2024 Vice Presidential Debate on the Metro TV YouTube channel. This study used descriptive quantitative methods with the Support Vector Machine algorithm to identify various public comments. The results show that from the data experiment taken as many as 1012 data, 80% data training amounting to 809 data and 20% data testing amounting to 203 data is carried out. An accuracy of 82% was obtained with a precision value of 80%, a recall value of 87%, and an f1-score value of 83%. With a fairly high accuracy value, the support vector machine model can be said to be the right model to calculate the accuracy value in sentiment analysis.

Kamala Harris and Mike Pence Personal and Social Deixis Analysis in US Vice Presidential Debate

Personal and social deixis have been the key factors in how people can engage in a conversation or discourse. From Hamdaoui (2015), it is known that deixis is one of the linguistic techniques that politicians emphasize a lot. Any linguistic theory can study it, but pragmatics must since it informs the analyst about the context of language production, including who is speaking, to whom, when, and where (Triki, 2010). Thus, this study used personal and social deixis theory in modern linguistics to answer several research questions, such as what deixis the candidates use and what are the effects. The research aims to see how each candidate effectively draws people’s attention in a presidential debate through the analysis of social deixis. Kamala Harris chooses to be more populist by using expressions such as exclusive ‘we’ or ‘us’ and ‘you’. Meanwhile, Mike Pence focuses on presenting himself and Trump through the use of expressions such as I and inclusive ‘we’ or ‘us’. Moreover, the distant relationship with Trump’s Administration that Kamala Harris has shown to the public can be a factor in how Americans see Joe and Kamala as different figures from their predecessors.

Analysis of Zilvia Iskandar's Public Speaking Skills in The 2024 Vice Presidential Debate

This study was titled to find out the public speaking ability of Moderator Zilvia Iskandar at the 2024 vice presidential candidate debate forum. The object of this study is the moderator's public speaking ability in the debate forum Candidate for vice presiddn 2024, the research method used is a qualitative method using a case study approach. The data collection techniques used by the authors in this study are interview, observation, and documentation techniques. The theory used in this study by Charles Henry is a speech technique, because basically a moderator also uses the speech techniques of Charles Henry's theory from modern rhetoric, using modern rhetoric aimed at developing effective communication skills. In a variety of situations, including public speech, debate, persuasive writing and interpersonal communication using force can be a follow-up study. The result of this study is the ability of public speaking to an influential moderator to conduct events, and can influence the audience to follow the moderator's directions, so that messages delivered by a moderator can be received by the listener. And from the research that's been done that public speaking as a whole is very good, everyone has characteristics in its speech delivery.

The Role of Digital Communication in Overcoming Polarization After the 2024 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debate

The second Vice Presidential Candidate Debate in the 2024 General Election has the potential to cause polarization due to plural citizens/differences in society. Digital Communication, which has an educational function, is projected to be a mediator so that polarization can be minimized as much as possible. This research is a qualitative research with a descriptive approach regarding the role of digital communications in overcoming polarization following the debate for vice presidential candidates in the 2024 general election. The data that researchers use here is secondary data that researchers obtained from credible websites, books, scientific articles, and various other sources. which is commonly used in every other scientific research. The data in this research was analyzed using the stages of data collection, data selection, data reduction, and drawing conclusions. The result in this research show 1. Digital Communication can have a negative impact, namely causing polarization due to a society that is plural/full of differences if used in incorrect ways, provoking social rifts and conflicts, insulting each other, and so on. 2. Digital Communication can have a positive impact in order to minimize polarization in three ways, namely being used to create positive, non-provocative content, focusing on vision and mission, and debating substantive matters.

The Impact of Intensifier as Women’s Persuasion Strategy in Politics Vice-Presidential Debate

This study aims to analyze the impact of intensifier as a persuasive language strategy in politics used by Kamala Harris as a female politician in the 2020 vice-presidential debate. The study attaches to the qualitative research method focusing to construe in-depth analysis. Two primary sources are used in data gathering: vice-presidential debate transcription from rev.com and the vice-presidential debate video from NBCNews on YouTube. The methodological approach is the qualitative research method. The theoretical framework used as the main theory of this research is Quirk et. al‘s (1992) intensifier theory and Lakoff's (1975) women’s language features. The result found that there are 95 intensifiers. First, emphasizers (58%) with attitudinal and style disjuncts (46%) and 12%. Second, amplifiers (25%) with maximizers (18%) and boosters (7%). Lastly, downtoners (16%) with compromiser (1%), diminisher (1%), minimizer (7%), and approximator (6%). The most prevalent sort of intensifier used by Kamala and Hillary was the emphasizer attitudinal disjunct, e.g. "Clearly, Actually, Of course, Probably, Certainly, Really" The most prevalent convey varying levels of certainty and uncertainty about what is being conveyed. Additionally, it was discovered that the two female politicians were using these words as part of a persuasive strategy to convince the audience.

Debating stereotypes: Online reactions to the vice-presidential debate of 2020.

The 2020 Vice-Presidential debate afforded the opportunity to examine online reactions toward a woman of color, Kamala Harris, and a white man, Mike Pence, as they vied for the same position. We collected tweets from the Twitter API related to Harris and Pence, mainly using neutral hashtags. We examined keywords for gender and race slurs and conducted a multivariate analysis of tweet sentiment. Gender and racial slurs surface in both Harris and Pence datasets, showcasing the insidious nature of sexist and racist stereotypes that seep into online conversations regarding a high-status job debate. As anticipated, tweets regarding Harris contained a higher proportion of racist and sexist curse words, highlighting greater levels of harassment and "intersectional," multi-ethnic/gender attacks. Racial insults targeting Blacks or Asians were more negative than those associated with Whites. Unexpectedly, tweets related to Harris were more positive in average sentiment than those regarding Pence. Yet, there were significantly more retweets, and more negativity of retweets, relating to Harris than to Pence, underscoring the relatively widespread broadcasting of derogatory messages about Harris. Overall, we found that harassing messages toward the candidates reinforced traditional race and gender stereotypes and bolstered the status of those who posted negative content by attaining more retweets. Harassers routinely invoked well-worn, stereotypical insults in their attacks, especially when targeting a multiracial woman.

Analysis of Identity Construction through Positioning Acts in Nigerian Vice-Presidential Debate Discourses

More often in political debates, participants do not readily expound their identities and attitudes; they employ language structure that requires the analysis of the placing of self/other in certain positions for comprehension. Hence, this study aims at exploring identity construction through positioning act strategies and the identities projected in the discourse practices by two vice presidential debate candidates in defining selves/others, parties’ stance and group categorization. The study used Langenhove and Harre (1999) positioning theory. The data for the study are delimited to five excerpts randomly selected from thirty-two online-transcribed discourses between two debate participants. Findings reveal that the candidates made use of first and second order performative and accountive positioning acts to implicate self/party’s moral order and positive stance and the other’s immoral attributes. The modes of positioning are moral, personal, intentional, deliberate self and other and forced self-positioning. The discursive practices involved are such that are strategically manipulated to divulge the individual’s attitudes to the socio-economic and political development of the nation, thereby portraying the following identities: Scrupulous, dogged, competent, loyalist and committed (self/group) identity and corrupt minded, incompetent, failure and uncommitted (others) identity. In conclusion, the knowledge of the concepts of positioning and its applicability to the understanding of political debates is essential for the understanding of the politicians’ ideologies and identities as well as their stance on the nation’s growth.

Social watching the 2020 presidential and vice-presidential debates: the effect of ideological homogeneity and partisan identity strength

This study presents a novel test of the effects of social watching a live campaign debate. We recruited just over 500 participants to view one of the two 2020 presidential campaign debates or the vice-presidential debate in real time via Zoom watch rooms. We experimentally manipulated the social dynamics of these Zoom watches to include either ideologically homogenous real-time chat, heterogenous chat, or no chat. We found asymmetry in the extent to which these chat manipulations exacerbated biased information processing. Participants in the homogenous chat Zoom sessions were more likely to provide negative debate performance evaluations of the out-group candidate but were no more likely to provide positive evaluations of the in-group candidate. Stronger partisans exhibited more bias in performance evaluation regardless of chat condition but, contrary to our expectations, did not engage in more chat compared to weak partisans.

Kemampuan Mahasiswa Menganalisis Struktur Retorika Debat pada Mata Kuliah Menyimak Komprehensif dan Kritis

This study aims to determine the ability of students to analyze the rhetorical structure of debate in Comprehensive and Critical Listening courses. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data source in this study is the result of student analysis of the 2019 presidential and vice-presidential debates. The results show that students' ability to analyze the rhetorical structure of the 2019 Presidential and Vice Presidential debates is categorized as good, with an average score of 71.18. In conclusion, students can explore the structure of the preliminary rhetoric, the content of arguments and findings from the 2019 Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates debate. 
 Keywords: Debate, Listening, Rhetoric Structure

218 BIDEN WON, BUT SLEEP LOST IN THE 2020 US ELECTION

IntroductionThe 2020 US Presidential Election captivated the US public resulting in record turnout. In the months preceding the elections COVID-19, racial injustice and the economic downturn had a daily impact on the lives of voters. In this research, we analyze the sleep behavior of Americans in the lead up to the Presidential Elections. We examine specifically the nights of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Debates and Election Night.MethodsWe examined sleep data from the PSG-validated SleepScore Mobile Application, which uses a non-contact sonar-based method to objectively capture sleep-related metrics and self-reported lifestyle data. The data set included 123,723 nights (5,967 users residing in the US, aged 18-85, mean age: 46.6 +/- 16.7 years, 52.3% female). Data from September 1st until November 3rd were included. This covered the nights of the Presidential Debates (Tuesday 09/29/2020 and Thursday 10/22/2020) and the Vice-Presidential Debate (Wednesday 10/07/2020). Election night was Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Self-reported stress level (0-24 scale) and alcohol consumption (0-9 drinks) were measured using digital slider scales. Mixed Effect Modelling was used for analysis.ResultsThe night of the 1st Presidential debate saw a change in sleep-related behavior with users going to bed 9.5 minutes later, as compared to a regular Tuesday Night. This resulted in a decrease in both TST (11.5 mins, p<0.001) and TIB (11.8 mins, p<0.001). Interestingly, neither the the 2nd Presidential Debate, nor the Vice Presidential Debate resulted in significant differences in sleep behavior. On election night users went to bed 14.5 (p<0.001) min later on average, as compared to a normal Tuesday Night. This resulted in a decrease in both TIB (24.3 mins, p<0.001) and TST (19.2 mins, p<0.001). Self-report data showed a 13.3% (p<0.001) increase in stress level on election night and 34.4% (p<0.001) increase alcohol consumption Importantly, election night was two nights after the end of Daylight Savings Time (DST), Sunday, November 1st.ConclusionThis analysis shows the 2020 US Presidential election negatively impacted US population sleep. The impact was most pronounced on election night, but also observed following the first Presidential debate. The effect of DST on these findings is unknown but surmised to be meaningful.Support (if any):

EUPHEMISMS IN 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEBATES

This research aimed at describing the forms and functions of euphemism in the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Debate of the Republic of Indonesia in 2019. This research also explained the form and function of euphemism that was most dominantlyused and whose speech containing most elements of euphemism. The method used in the research was descriptive qualitative method and content analysis approach. The data sources in this research were videos and transcripts of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Debate in the first and fifth rounds in 2019. The results of this study revealednine forms of euphemism, namely figurative expression, metaphor, flippancy, circumlocutions, clipping, acronym, abbreviation, one for one substitution, borrowing, and hyperbole. The most dominant euphemism form used was one for One Substitution with the total of 164 or 61.4%. Furthermore, the speech that had the most euphemism was Joko Widodo with the total of 113 euphemisms or 42.3%. Finally, this research also showedfour functions of euphemismas a form of positive imaging, criticizing or insinuating opponents, refining speech, and as a tool for diplomacy.

Media and Politics in Indonesia: The Alignments of the Media in the 2019 Elections

This study aims to determine the framing of the news in the Kompas and the Republika newspapers on the debates of the presidential and vicepresidential candidates in the 2019 elections in the Republic of Indonesia. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method comprising the framing analysis developed by Zongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki which suggests four analytical tools, namely Syntactic, Script, Thematic and Rhetorical structures. The results showed that the Kompas newspaper reported the presidential and vice-presidential debates in a balanced and neutral manner, because the owners of this media were not affiliated with any political interests in the 2019 presidential elections. The Republika newspaper constructed the news of the presidential and vicepresidential debates by giving coverage to news in favour of the presidential election of Jokowi and Ma'ruf Amin. This is influenced by media ownership factors, as its owner, Erick Thohir is a chairman of the National Winning Team (TKN) for Jokowi and Ma'ruf Amin.

Hashtag war: 2019 Presidential election rhetoric in Indonesia

Twitter as a social media has become increasingly used, including by its use by each Presidential candidate’s stronghold to launch a campaign to influence prospective voters’ electoral decisions in the 2019 Presidential Election in Indonesia. One strategy used in such a campaign on Twitter was by disseminating hashtags that were expected to become trending topics on Twitter. The dissemination of these hashtags aimed to build political rhetoric that can influence prospective voters’ electoral decisions. Thus, this study sought to explore the patterns of hashtags disseminated by each candidate’s stronghold to build political rhetoric and find out public sentiments in the posted Twitter contents. The number of tweets with #Jokowi2Periode and #2019GantiPresiden hashtags during the period of the 2019 Indonesian presidential and vice-presidential debates that were successfully downloaded using MAXQDA 18.1.1 software was 92,276. The research findings revealed that the distribution pattern of the #Jokowi2Periode hashtag tended to be more scattered (decentralized) by relying on the actor’s presentation and the actor’s speed in responding to tweets. In contrast, the spread of the #2019GantiPresiden hashtag was more centralized by relying on communication channels on Twitter. These two distribution patterns are discussed with the perspective of cyber psychology, through cues-filtered-in and cues-filtered-out theories.

Introducing the Transcripts of US Presidential Debates Data Set

Presidential debates have become an important part of the US electoral system. This paper describes a new data set of debate transcripts which makes it much easier to use new text analytic methods to describe and classify debate content. The data set includes transcripts of all presidential and vice-presidential debates, along with a selection of primary candidate debates. The data set also includes useful speaker-level and debate-level variables.

The discussion of abortion in US political debates: A study in occasioned semantics

This article deals with the discussion of abortion in a number of US presidential and vice-presidential debates, from a scaling perspective. The interest in scales, as (co)constructed and negotiated by participants in the course of interaction, is a component of occasioned semantics. I found that, in the political debates that I examined, there are a number of different scales anchored by the contrast between ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-choice’ positions. These are as follows: (1) Stage of pregnancy, (2) Prescribed action, (3) Special circumstances, (4) Locus of enforcement and (5) Frequency. These scales are manipulated in various ways by the candidates to make their own stances seem reasonable and moral and their opponents’ unreasonable and immoral. A position may be made to appear more moderate by adding a more extreme alternative to the scale, which is then rejected (‘negative upgrading’). Also, common goals (in particular, reduction of abortion frequency) may be emphasized. The debaters also use ‘negative downgrading’ – rejection of a more moderate position – to suggest an opponent’s unreasonableness. It is noted that the availability of several scales affords various ways of formulating the reasonableness or unreasonableness of a particular position. The article continues with a close examination of an extended debate sequence, illustrating the crucial role of implicature in the manipulation of scales, the attribution of attitude, and the practice of argumentation, and the possibility of dealing with implicature within a conversation analytic framework. The discussion is, at all points, grounded in and illustrated by the actual talk of the political candidates. It is suggested that viewing specific occasions of interaction in terms of the creation and negotiation of scales can yield a unique and revealing perspective on what is taking place.

Meeting the commander-in-waiting: Undecided voters and the 2016 vice-presidential debate

ABSTRACTThe vast majority of published communication scholarship regarding political campaign debates focuses on the actions of the presidential candidates. Considerably less research, by comparison, has contributed to our understanding of the role of vice-presidential candidates. Experimental research has revealed that exposure to presidential debates can influence viewers’ political information efficacy, cynicism, polarization, and feeling thermometer evaluations of the candidates, but very little research examines the why behind these shifts. Based on a focus group of undecided voters who watched the 2016 vice-presidential debate, this study presents exploratory analysis of how a vice-presidential debate influences the political attitudes and behaviors of uncommitted voters. We first review prior research on the vice-presidential candidate's rhetorical role in the campaign as well as research on the impact of vice-presidential debates, followed by a description of our study's methodology, and conclude with an extended analysis of the 2016 vice-presidential debate arguments and how undecided voters responded.