David Gregory To Moderate New Hampshire GOP Primary Debate

David Gregory To Moderate New Hampshire GOP Primary Debate

"Meet the Press" host David Gregory will moderate a GOP presidential debate on the Sunday before the all-important 2012 New Hampshire primary. The NBC program will co-host the event with Facebook.

The forum will air live on MSNBC and New England Cable News, and as a special edition of "Meet the Press" on NBC. It will also stream live on Facebook. The primary is scheduled for Feb. 12.

This will not be the first time the social networking site will have a role in presenting the debates. ABC teamed up with Facebook to sponsor the debates in New Hampshire in 2008. Joel Kaplan, Vice President of U.S. Public Policy at Facebook, points to "robust activity on Facebook around recent elections" as evidence of the social networking site's "increasing role in the democratic process."

The debates of the last presidential election reached a new level of web-savvy, with CNN and Youtube hosting a debate that pitched candidates questions via Youtube videos.

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