Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumABC.com: Why Bernie Sanders' West Coast Blowouts Matter
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-west-coast-blowouts-matter/story?id=37963537EDIT: This ought to get them nutz in GDP because - this article shows him pointing with BOTH hands, not just one. (Explanation: Some on the other side have claimed that Bernie's habit of "talking with his hands" means there's something wrong with him.)
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Bernie Sanders did not just win all three states that voted this weekend -- Washington, Alaska and Hawaii -- he won them by overwhelming, impressive margins. The presidential hopeful won every county in Washington, and some of his biggest victory margins came from the state's most rural and traditionally conservative areas.
The win will likely mean a fundraising boost for the small-donor driven campaign. Sanders does not have a super PAC and instead has enjoyed injections of cash from his fans after big wins or important nights in the election calendar. According to the campaign, supporters from Washington State already give to his cause at disproportionately high rates, so these wins will likely produce another windfall.
The wins also validate Sanders' commitment to an extended primary. Despite the fact that he is trailing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by a significant number of delegates needed for the nomination, Sanders has pledged to stay in the race until all 50 states get their say.
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Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)His campaign really needed some big wins yesterday, and boy howdy did the Western Saturday states come through!!
Yay!!! Go, Bernie!!
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Way to insult the entire nation of Italy!
Isn't there REALLY something wrong with a candidate who LIES ALL THE FRICKIN' TIME?
I'll take hand gestures over lying any day.
I_Make_Shirts
(14 posts)"I'll take hand gestures over lying any day." -- I ought to make that my signature on all the political forums. XD
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Make it into a shirt.
Donkees
(31,465 posts)According to Carol Goman, of Forbes, studies have found that people who communicate through active gesturing tend to be evaluated as warm, agreeable and energetic.
I suppose this is because enthusiasm is inviting. I mean, Im sure we all recall (more than) a few bad decisions weve made in the past, on behalf of that one super-convincing friend.
When people are enthusiastic about something, its hard not to wonder why and feel compelled to gain a better understanding.
That enthusiasm is contagious. And, in a lot of cases, enthusiasm or the ability to translate enthusiasm comes off as charisma, which is one of the most important qualities to have as a leader.
As reported by Goman, most great leaders also have the knack of speaking with their hands.
Whether during a business presentation or a speech to a great mass of people, how you gesture your hands can greatly affect the message youre trying to convey. Most of the time, your hand gestures are direct reflections of your sentiment.
As Goman writes, when leaders dont use gestures correctly, it suggests they dont recognize the crucial issues, they have no emotional investment in the issues, or they dont realize the impact of their nonverbal behavior on the audience.
At the same time, you can immediately engage your audience by being vocal through your body language, in addition to what youre saying verbally.
In fact, as Annie Paul writes for Business Insider, using hand gestures while speaking can also portray a higher sense of intelligence to those listening.
The reasoning behind this comes from the notion of embodied cognition, which Paul describes as the recognition that our bodies play a big role in how we think.
Essentially, the use of nonverbal cues adds a sense of confidence to the things youre saying, verbally.
As Paul explains, hand gestures double as a second language, one that can fill in certain aspects of your message that your words mightve left out.
Hand gestures and verbal cues are meant to work together in congruence. And, when our gestures and spoken-pieces arent in sync, so to speak, it will sometimes backfire.
In similar fashion, Paul continues to suggest the importance of hand gestures with respect to learning.
An important study on the topic, conducted by Susan Goldin-Meadow, a psychology professor at the University of Chicago, introduces the idea that we change our minds by moving our hands.
One of the most important findings of Goldin-Meadows work revolves around what she calls as mismatches, which are, generally speaking, incongruences between hand gestures and verbal cues.
According to Paul, these discrepancies indicate that were in a transitional state, moving from one level of understanding to another.
That said, hand gestures and mismatches also encourage learning.
Goldin-Meadow discovered that mismatches act as red flags for instructors in a school setting and serve as the cues they need to adjust their teaching style.
When students use their hands at young ages, these mismatches are much easier to identify and, subsequently, are much easier to fix.
Additionally, speaking with ones hands has also been said to accelerate learning as well.
A separate study, conducted by Susan Wagner Cook, an assistant psychology professor at the University of Iowa, revealed that third graders who were asked to gesture while learning algebra were nearly three times more likely to remember what theyd learned than classmates who did not gesture, as Paul explains.
Cook also reported that people who speak with their hands are far more likely to construe information that will be retained than those who dont.
In order to make the most of your communication skills, its important to incorporate your hands but ensure youre doing it correctly, first.
Susan Weinschenk Ph.D, in an article from Psychology Today, explains a few techniques that are the most efficient. Having said that, each technique tends to tell your audience something different.
By speaking with your palms down, for instance, youll be expressing a greater sense of certainty, however, palms at a 45-degree angle, as Weinschenk continues, depicts honesty.
At the same time, by keeping your hands out in front of your body in a grasped fashion you will come off to your audience as nervous or tentative, so its extremely important to be observant of your own gestures.
http://elitedaily.com/money/speak-hands-smarter-successful/1091509/
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)their emotions too.
Tend to be honest.
Hand gestures that coincide with the thoughts a person is expressing indicate unity of mind, heart, soul and strongly suggest sincerity (as long as the person is mentally healthy).
That's my experience.
Hillary is stilted, stiff and not particularly open or honest in her speech. She is very guarded. Her hand gestures are not in sync with the rest of her because she does not have integration between her body, her mind and her heart.
Hand gestures that match words suggest integrity.
eridani
(51,907 posts)--state Dem party leaders have no influence over Democrats there. I've always thought that the party should work harder on contesting those areas, but oh well...