Republican YouTube Debate Tonight
The Republican presidential candidates will meet tonight for the CNN YouTube debates, hosted by Anderson Cooper. This is a new approach to the presidential debate process. Questions are asked by people who send in 30 second YouTube videos via the internet. The democrats already had theirs a few months ago.
Originally, all the republican candidates had declined the invitation — save John McCain and Ron Paul — citing scheduling conflicts. After an animated snowman was used in a video to ask a question to the democratic contenders, Mitt Romney expressed his distaste in answering questions from a snowman. Apparently since then, his campaign aides have explained that it wasn’t really a snowman talking, but rather humans using stop-motion animation to ask a question in a creative way. The debate was rescheduled for tonight, and I believe all the remaining candidates will also be attending.
8pm ET, on CNN