The quadrennial ritual of presidential debates has long followed a tried and true format. A guy in a suit asks mostly predictable questions of other suits. The voter is a fixture in the audience, motionless until he or she gets to address the candidate, briefly and respectfully. Everything is choreographed.[…]
The presidential debates are about to enter the world of YouTube…and CNN are co-sponsoring a debate among the eight Democratic presidential candidates on July 23 in South Carolina, an event that could define the next phase of what has already been called the YouTube election […]
YouTube said it would hold a similar debate for Republicans in Florida on Sept. 17. Matt Lewis, director of operations at townhall.com, a conservative site, said he liked the idea. […]
Whether the YouTube debate translates into a bigger turnout by the under-30 crowd at the polls next November is a different question. […]
I think this will be interesting if anything else. This is definitely something new, I think it will either end up being a really good thing and end up changing the way a traditional debate is done or it will be too much for some people. I’d like to think for the first one, it will be interesting to see what videos will be picked.
But in all seriousness, this is something new that could really take off and be something different. I think that this affects, especially most of us on this site since a lot of us are apart of that demographic they are trying to target. But then again as always you wonder about ulterior motives like is CNN and YouTube trying to do only as a promotional stunt, probably so I’m guessing, you know that’s just business.
Nonetheless, this will change the way we ask questions, and to e honest no matter how it turns out I prefer this over the staged questions you probably have to submit to someone so they can look over it, boring type deal.
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