Presidential Debates Coming To Twitter

Want to know what Barack Obama thinks about net neutrality? John McCain's views on white space spectrum? Good luck learning about that during any of this fall's official debates. But we're reasonably sure these and other issues will come up via a semi-formal debate the two campaigns are starting up today -- via Twitter.

Here are the pretty loose ground rules for the event, organized by Andrew Rasiej's Personal Democracy Forum: Sometime today, moderator Ana Marie Cox will start lobbing questions to two officially sanctioned stand-ins for the rival campaigns -- Mike Nelson, who's advising the Obama campaign on tech issues, and Liz Mair, online communcations director for the Republican National Committee. The debate is supposed to focus exclusively on tech, so if you're looking for arguments about Iraq or campaign financing, you're going to be disappointed. But since it's completely in the hands of Ana Marie, best known as the original Wonkette, we're betting it's going to be quite lively.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[xmw]

McStupid is a gonner.

[MsLiz]

I am going to ask my daughter to read this article and tell me WTF they are talking about. It's hell getting old.

[NotMcCain]

A more accurate headline would be, "Campaign Surrogates to Answer Moderator-Submitted Questions About Technology on Twitter.com".

There's no way this is a "presidential debate". Sorry.

[PoliSci2008]

A DEBATE solely on technology? Well it better cover energy resources, oil drilling and transportation techology, and how the techology will balance the deficit and end US involvement in Iraq! And that's the first half of the debate session. Otherwise, Liz Mair, online communcations director for the Republican National Committee, will look like a failure, too.

[nativeeyes]

All of you T-1 PRI"s or VoIP have 20 DID"s Standard.

[JeffersonState]

I'm looking at an atlas and cant find Twitter in any of the 57 states.

[KMKY]

I shouldn't be laughing (because it was an honest mistake), but that is so funny!

[SanityClaus]

Great photo!

If Scarface were to take over the lead role in Phantom of the Opera he wouldn't require any makeup.

[Grunty1]

If this works out, then the "debate" type may need to be expanded to include more topics.
We shall see.

[coba]

i love twitter

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