“…, political movements (Hayden, 2003;Peeples & DeLuca, 2006;Tonn, 1996), Congressional policymaking (Blankenship & Robson, 1995), political debates (Banwart & McKinney, 2005;Johnson, 2005), convention speeches (DeRosa & Bystrom, 1999), and presidential campaign films (Parry-Giles & Parry-Giles, 1996. Understanding how political communication operates in American democracy demands an appreciation of how gender and style play out in our political process.…”