Romney's Interstitial Disconnect

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- Mitt Romney just announced the end of his bid for the Republican nomination. In today's political climate, big money and high-paid consultants alone do not make the grade. Successful campaigns and candidates must be multi-dimensional in order to woo multi-media oriented voters.

In that vein, Romney and his staff never came to grips with what voters were looking for in a President.

Roughly 80% of Americans are unsatisfied with traditional political news coverage, and so they have signed online. The Parties have started to take note. In New Hampshire, hundreds of thousands of potential voters used the US Election Facebook application to stream live comments and answer polls during the debate. In Hollywood, the CNN Debates were co-sponsored by the LA Times and Politico.com, and their user's questions were directed to the candidates à la the CNN/YouTube debate. Interstitial debates are becoming the norm, and as a result large volumes of voters are tracking the candidates.

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Comments

[Mormondude]

The 'interstitial' debate format is a farce.

Debate moderators can come up with the same questions as readers can. It's the equivalent of having a trained monkey type the questions out on a keyboard. It's just a side show, and doesn't change the question at all.

And it's far too open to manipulation, as we saw with some of Hillary's people planting questions in the Republican debates.

It adds almost nothing substantive, while creating problems. Why bother?