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Red Herring: When someone goes off topic of the subject being discussed to win over more of the audience for their cause.

media type="custom" key="27894077" In the debate of Romney Vs. Obama the debate opens with one question, but when Mitt Romney is able to reply to the question, he goes way off topic. The woman asks how to get AK-47's out of the hands of criminals but Romney ends up talking about children and the upbringing of them. Romney goes way out of topic to keep talking and give off the appearance as if he knows everything and should be elected. He does this mainly just to win over the majority of the audience for his side of the issue at hand.

media type="custom" key="27891715" This is an example of Red Herring because at first, someone asks how the person will deal with the frequency of garbage pick-up but the guy campaigning just says that it was a great question. He bounces off of the question asked and goes to something he wants to talk about to appear as if he knows completely what he is talking about. This is a great example of red herring that politicians do all the time.

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