Young, Seth2024-05-232024-05-232024-05-10https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14446/344410Barring party identification, is the verbal message delivered by a political candidate our primary consideration when determining vote choice? Is it possible that the communicative techniques we evaluate in a conversational situation are parallel to our political evaluations? Given the significance of political positions, voters will place heightened consideration upon the verbal and non-verbal communication of a political candidate in an effort to better determine their capability to hold office, or evaluate the efficacy and/or morality of their proposed policies. The question being answered by this work is as follows; how do the non-verbal communicative techniques of a political candidate alter the vote choice of the electorate?application/pdfCopyright is held by the author who has granted the Oklahoma State University Library the non-exclusive right to share this material in its institutional repository. Contact Digital Library Services at lib-dls@okstate.edu or 405-744-9161 for the permission policy on the use, reproduction or distribution of this material.Honors Thesis