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Why Politicians Avoid Answering Questions
The Secrets Behind Question Dodging
Why can’t politicians answer a straight forward question?
They talk. And they talk. And they talk. But a lot of the time, they never really seem to say anything.
In this article we’ll discover: 1. How politicians avoid answering questions. 2. Why politicians avoid answering questions.
1. How Politicians Avoid Answering Questions
The thing about interviews on mainstream news channels is that there is always a limited amount of time.
The interviewer is on the clock. They need to get a good interview completed in a certain period of time, be it 2 minutes, 5 minutes or 10 minutes.
This means that if a politician can avoid answering a question for long enough, they can run out the clock and get away with never actually answering it.
After all, is the interviewer going to continually repeat the question, over and over, each time the politician dodges the question? Remember, the interviewer is on the clock. They don’t have time to ask the same question more than twice.
Politicians know this, and they use it to their advantage.
