Posts with the tag 'presidential debate'
By Billy Hallowell, VoterWatch
While the first two presidential debates were completely inadequate in terms of providing valuable information about candidate stances, the final debate was more open in terms of scope and communication. While still not subscribing to the recommendations that The Open Debate Coalition laid out, the final debate did provide a more informative forum.
While we are happy to have Dick Morris and our “regulars” on board for this final debate, we are even more excited to announce that The Heritage Foundation and Reason Magazine have decided to participate in our final installment of the 2008 Presidential Debates Project.
Rob Bluey of The Heritage Foundation did an amazing job inserting commentary using the VoterWatch media player. Bluey brings a robust presentation of thought and perspective to the best debate of the bunch. I’m sure you’ll find the resulting product intriguing. Also, be sure to see the annotation posted on the Heritage site as well as Bluey’s piece about VoterWatch and the player on K Street Cafe. Or, to simply view the commentary, click the image below:
Tags: Biden, heritage foundation, McCain, obama, Palin, presidential debate, rob bluey, voterwatch
October 18th, 2008
Sarah Granger is an active community member and an imaginative writer, editor, and speaker. She highlights the dynamic relationship between technology and the rest of society. Covering a diverse range of matter from network security, electronic privacy, and blogging, to entertainment and parenting, Granger is an extremely talented blogger. Founder of SFBayStyle and a contributing editor to MOMocrats and BlogHer, Granger combines her passion for technology, policy, philanthropy, and writing which is why VoterWatch is honored to have her on board for this year’s project!
Founded in 2007 by Will Ruben, then a sophomore at Harvard College, the aim of VoteGopher remains to create access to information about the presidential candidates’ to be more informed during the election process and to encourage young people to vote. Moreover, the team behind VoteGopher hopes for the voice of the young generation to be asserted in the upcoming election in November. Please see VoteGopher’s commentary using the VoterWatch media player on the economy, presidential meetings with Iran and plenty more.
Tags: election, presidential debate, sarah granger, votegopher, voterwatch
October 2nd, 2008
By Billy Hallowell
DON’T forget to check out Dick Morris’ commentary — extremely interesting. But this post is about a very cool collaboration that’s been forged (and not about specific commentators). A few days ago, I wrote about Current/Twitter’s new electoral relationship. Their very cool “Hack the Debates” initiative kicked off last night and VoterWatch was there to participate. VoterWatch Twitted comments about the presidential debate on behalf of the Bob Barr for President Team, CovertRadio and other Presidential Debates Project partners. If you aren’t familiar with Twitter, be sure to check it out.
While Current didn’t sign on to annotate the debates using our player, we joined forces with them to disseminate information about their project as well as a link to their recap of what went down during last night’s debate. Check out what happens when television and Twitter mix.
Tags: blogging the debates, current, McCain, obama, presidential debate, twitter
September 27th, 2008
Dick Morris has prepared his comments on last night’s presidential debate. Click below to view them in VoterWatch’s interactive media player! We’re excited to release this first commentary. Keep coming back throughout the weekend and on Monday to see the remaining commentaries (Cynthia McKinney, Sophia Nelson, the Bob Barr Team, the Ralph Nader team and many others). Also, feel free to comment, interact and react! Be sure to check out Dick Morris’ blog!
Tags: barack obama, dick morris, john mccain, presidential debate
September 27th, 2008
Call it political posturing or call it country first, but John McCain’s call to postpone this Friday’s presidential debate is definitely newsworthy. CNN reports McCain’s words as follows:
“I cannot carry on a campaign as though this dangerous situation had not occurred, or as though a solution were at hand, which it clearly is not,” McCain said in New York. “With so much on the line, for America and the world, the debate that matters most right now is taking place in the United States Capitol. I intend to join it.”
Of course, this would postpone many of the excellent new media projects that are going on surrounding the debates. Either way, we’ll be adjusting our schedule to reflect the candidates’ decisions (so stay tuned). No matter where you stand on McCain’s proclamation, one thing is for certain: this electoral season keeps throwing curve balls at the American electorate!
Tags: john mccain, presidential debate
September 25th, 2008
