July 24, 2007

2007 Democratic CNN/YouTube Debate

In case you missed the news, the latest Democratic presidential debate was hosted by CNN and YouTube last night. YouTube users were invited to submit questions, which were played live at the debate.

This was the first big step YouTube needed to break out of the “online only” mold. If all goes well, we should see YouTube grow even more as the mainstream world becomes aware of the site through the debate. It’s likely that many of the candidates never even saw a video on YouTube until last night, as with much of the audience watching them.

Anyway, the questions were fresh in the way they were presented, although there were a lot of regular fluff answers. Some of the questions asked were definitely tough. We should look forward to the CNN/YouTube Republican debate on September 17th. Now that this debate has been aired, I hope to see a new twist at the Republican debate after people saw what sort of questions would make it on the air.

You can find all of the questions here.

Filed under: News, Politics — Michi @ 3:01 pm

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