There's a state election coming up in the Pfalz shortly. So....SWR, the public TV network for the region...went and had what I'd call a election arena public forum....with the various big parties running.
Various topics covered....one intensely.....climate-change.
I'm not saying it's a top ten issue with voters...maybe if you had 16-to-25 year old voters....it might be in their top ten topics.
So, as each candidate is tossed the question.....you start to notice the camera angle.
They had a audience surround the six folks.....I thought it was a odd prospective...usually the public would be facing the stage.
So as the CDU guy gave his response.....camera captures the 3 public folks sitting behind the CDU guy....mostly grinning and shaking their head over his response.
Intentional? Well....I'd like to think it was accidental that they had the stage set this way, the camera angle set in a funny way, and had three anti-CDU folks behind the CDU candidate.
Could the camera deal and three 'jokers' shift 10,000 voters? I doubt it. But this race is fairly close on the CDU and SPD split of voters....it might only be a CDU win by 2,000 votes.
Footnote: You could probably ask 10,000 folks who watched and if they noticed the camera angle/shaking heads.....and fewer than 300 noted it (my guess). I should also note....there was a soccer game on at the same time, and most Pfalz guys were probably watching the game.
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Reminds me a bit of the Nixon Kennedy debate Nixon wouldn't wear makeup for the TV cameras and that made him look pale. Most of the people that watched the television debate thought kennedy won , and most of the people that listened on the radio thought nixon won the debate.
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