Tech Daily Dose: MySpace/MTV Start Candidate Interviews http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2007/09/myspacemtv-start-candidate-int.php?rss=1 en Copyright 2010 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:34:45 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification MySpace/MTV Start Candidate Interviews MySpace and MTV brought a whole new level of accountability to a presidential townhall format Thursday. Technology has given voters more ways to ask candidates questions, but this was the first time they could rate the answers in real time using an online widget on MySpace.

New Hampshire college students asked questions ranging from genocide to health care during the hour long interview with vice presidential candidate John Edwards. Edwards wore jeans for the occasion and stood on a small platform featuring a screaming mouth bursting amid red and white rays with students surrounding him.

Host Gideon Yago invited online viewers to use the polling widget on MySpace to show "if you're feeling spun or inspired by his answers." Chris Cillizza, a political blogger for the Washington Post, announced that Edwards' answer to a question about Katrina recovery was a hit online, with most viewers giving giving him a thumbs up and 63 percent saying he had good ideas.

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