The Debates' New Face

THE DEBATES' NEW FACE
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Jose Antonio Vargas]
CNN is sorting through more than 1,300 video questions uploaded to YouTube and intended for presidential candidates. About two dozen or so will be selected and poised to Democrats in Charleston on Monday. No one quite knows how the debate will work -- some candidates don't even know how to prepare for it. But the fact that it is happening at all is a testament to the increasing role of online video in politics and the emergence of a 2 1/2 -year-old Web site better known for its irreverent, sometimes crude, content than as a factor in the 2008 campaign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/18/AR2007071802528.html
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