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YouTube gets in the political spotlight
by Emily Price Apr 13th 2007 at 11:00AM
YouTube is giving this years presidential candidates time under the internet spotlight by launching You Choose 08'. Each week a new presidential candidate will be put in the spotlight and given the opportunity to talk to the YouTube community about a topic of their choice.At the beginning of the week the candidate posts a question on YouTube, and then throughout the week viewers are encouraged to upload a video response. The candidate, or more likely the candidates "people" will watch the videos, listen to the responses, and then make a response video of their own based on what they've heard.
You Choose 08' officially kicked off Wednesday with a video featuring Governor Mitt Romney who asked "What do you believe is America's single greatest challenge?" As of this morning Mitt had only received 21 video responses, but had well over 200 text responses to his video.
Using YouTube as a place to discuss politics, and more importantly discuss politics witha political candidate is an interesting idea. How do you think it will do? Do things a candidate says on YouTube have the potential to affect the presidential election?
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