...CNN will ask the audience not to cheer or boo during the actual debate.
“When the audience is cheering, the debaters also function differently because they start to play to the crowd and the volume of the candidates increases as the crowd continues to cheer,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a scholar of presidential debates. Those cues, she added, “can really impact candidates, what they say, how they say it and more importantly the response of the audience at home.”
Then why am I hearing applause for everyone else?