YouTube-CNN Presidential Debate Tonight
Tonight kicks off a first for presidential politics as YouTube and CNN will be hosting a democratic presidential debate live from South Carolina where YouTube users were able to record and submit questions to candidates and they will answer them tonight. I think this is a great step forward if they do it right and I do think that is a big IF. I will be very interested to see if they actually chose some tough and controversial questions or if they will take the easy way out and just use softball questions for the candidates.
In my opinion, what would of been even better was that YouTube allowed their community to vote on which questions they liked the best and the questions which received the most votes were automatically used, but let’s hope this is one small step forward with many to come.
I know I will be watching tonight and we can definitely discuss what we thought of it tomorrow. The debate begins tonight at 7 pm on CNN and is scheduled to run two hours.
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Of course, the REALLY true test will be if they give the same level of questions to the Republican candidates.
Cheap – I think the true test will be if the republicans understand how this whole wacky internet thing works and if any of them had ever heard of YouTube before the debate.
Thanks for your thoughts.
I think the truest of all tests is if any of this has real impact on elections. WHY? Traditionally young people don’t vote! They’ll participate in social activities but not the actual vote.
I think social media will impact elections eventually, but will 2008 be the year? We won’t know until doomsday.