{"id":3339,"date":"2005-06-10T01:27:39","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T09:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/10\/a-competent-face-wins-elections\/"},"modified":"2005-06-10T01:27:39","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T09:27:39","slug":"a-competent-face-wins-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/a-competent-face-wins-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"A competent face wins elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tNational Geographic news <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2005\/06\/0609_050609_elections.html\">reports a shocking new study of voter preference:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First impressions count, especially in politics. New research suggests many U.S. voters cast their ballots based on their first impressions of a political candidate&#8217;s face&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers tested voters&#8217; snap judgments about the political candidates. Attractiveness, honesty, and likeability were measured, but the trait that stood out for voters was a candidate&#8217;s competence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This obviously explains W&#8217;s election triumphs.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic news reports a shocking new study of voter preference: First impressions count, especially in politics. New research suggests many U.S. voters cast their ballots based on their first impressions of a political candidate&#8217;s face&#8230; Researchers tested voters&#8217; snap judgments about the political candidates. Attractiveness, honesty, and likeability were measured, but the trait that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/a-competent-face-wins-elections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A competent face wins elections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-RR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}