MySpace+MTV+AP = Presidential Super Dialogue
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Elections, media |
There will come a day when we wonder how ever did America elect a President before the Internet and mobile technology. Through a pioneering partnership with MySpace, MTV and the Associated Press, young voters will have a terrific opportunity to hear directly from the Presidential candidates through multiple sources of media, including: TV, cable, radio, satellite radio, mobile cell phones and online. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee have already confirmed their participation, and each candidate has been invited to the February 2nd event.
Yes, MTV’s ‘Choose or Lose‘ has come a long way since its pre-internet days of 1992. Youths of today are likely to find information through multiple media sources, include modes of communication that were just in their infancy or not even in use in 1992. But unlike the promise of 1992, heck even unlike the promise of the 26th Amendment which lowered the voting age to 18 - for the first time young voters are doing something different - they are actually voting!
Truth be told before the 2008 campaign it was nice to get young people voting for you, but it wasn’t necessary. This year, that has changed.
Young voters have turned out at primaries and caucuses in record numbers this year - tripling their presence in Iowa and South Carolina, and doubling in New Hampshire vs. four years ago - and their support will translate to 100s of delegates on Super Tuesday, February 5th. The “Super Dialogue” will give each participating candidate an opportunity to engage with this audience and individually address questions posed by online viewers via MySpaceIM, ChooseOrLose.com and from the live, college-aged audience in MTV’s Times Square studio in New York. Candidates have the freedom to join from the studio or via satellite from the campaign trail. MTV News Correspondents Gideon Yago and Sway Calloway, as well as WashingtonPost.com political reporter Chris Cillizza will return to moderate, joined by a top AP political reporter covering the campaign.
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