MySpace gets official presidential debate deal

News Corp.'s MySpace has the presidential debate stamp of approval.

The social network has been officially sanctioned by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) to launch MyDebates.org, which will debut Wednesday. The site offers a downloadable app that will stream the presidential debates live, archive them for on-demand viewing (searchable and tagged, naturally), participate in polls, and track the candidates' stances on issues.

The first presidential debate is September 26, followed by a vice presidential debate on October 2. This marks the first time that the CPD has officially partnered with a Web property for debate coverage.

Since the early days of the '08 electoral process, MySpace has been launching high-profile activism initiatives through "MySpace Impact," a nonpartisan politics site. The social network has rolled out a register-to-vote contest geared toward indie bands, a citizen-journalism competition in conjunction with MSNBC, an NBC News-powered election site, and a series of polls. In addition, the site held a series of candidate "dialogues" in partnership with MTV.

MySpace, and social networks in general, were far more under-the-radar in the last presidential election cycle, so their potential impact on turnout, awareness, and election results remains unmeasured. But the site's stereotype as a teen hub shouldn't get in the way: MySpace says that four-fifths of its members are of voting age.

[benjaminstraight]

MySpace is a way to reach voters. Smart on their part to pick up ths platform.

[Harrison912]

MySpace is a great social platform for marketing all sorts of things. I use it to raise awareness for my safety and security products so why not use it to raise awareness for the political issues and where our presidential candidates stand on them.

[drstorey]

I think the CDP should open up the debates for the Third Parties. They have a right to be heard. The two main parties only talk about the same things, going round and round.

Open the Debates!!!

[Archarito]

Gwen Ifill, the moderator of the VP Debate is working on a book: "Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama."

The portion of the title "the Age of Obama" connotates some sort of entitlement for Obama implying it is his age rather than, vis a vis; an age when hardworking Americans recapture Washington from an out-of-control corrupt "politically correct" Washington.

Upon review of Ms Ifill's commentary regarding Governor Sarah Palin it is extremely difficult to visulaize Ms Ifill asking a set of properly balanced, unbiased, set of questions to the candidates. The U-Tube of Gwen Ifill covering the Republican Convention projects extreme unhappiness and disappointment with Governor Palin's repeated little barbs at Barack Obama that generated so much applause and enthusiasm at the Republican Convention.

After watching and listening to Ms. Ifill's recorded comments that show a complete absence of understanding the overwhelming importance of the new attitude of reforming the corrupt elitist "politically correct" political establishment and observing Ms. Ifill's apparent disdain for Governor Palin's success at the Republican Convention it seems extremely likely there will be a strongly biased moderator. Ms Ifill's condescending remarks about Governor Palin having hunted moose and challenges about her having children while in public office are really over the top nuancing a form of jealousy of Governor Palin doing it all while Ms. Ifill remains single. It strongly appears Ms. Ifill may not be sufficiently disposed to, or; capable of being an unbiased moderator at the VP debates. Insensitivity by Ms Ifill of failing to understand the importance of the new attitude Ms Palin brings to the table will demonstrate perverse bias.

Some apropriate questions for Senator Biden could be: Is Senator Biden aware of what adverse impact the diversity laws have had on white males? Does Senator Biden understand the adverse impact the extremely discriminatory diversity laws may have had on white males since these laws were passed? If so, what is he willing to do about it?

A question for Governor Palin could be; what necessity is there in Alaska for entitlement programs like food stamps and homeless shelters? What teaching programs does Alaska have to prepare people for good paying jobs? What does Governor Palin attribute her 80% popularity in Alaska to? How important to Alaska was putting the pipeline out to bid vis a vis going through negoiations with oil companies embedded on the North Slope to get a natural gas pipeline built? Why should polar bears be taken off the endangered species list? Why is culling wolves in Alaska and corruption in Washington D.C. necessary?

[lexleong]

Watch the presidential debates 2008 LIVE on your mobile phone. You just need Skyfire, the mobile phone internet browser. There's a video of it on MySpace at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VY-tR92Xd8

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