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Monday, July 23, 2007 at the Citadel in Charleston, SC from 7:00 to 9:00 PM (ET) |
Sponsors: CNN and YouTube.
Candidates: Sen. Joe Biden, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Chris Dodd, former Sen. John Edwards, former Sen. Mike Gravel, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and Gov. Bill Richardson participated. [all 8 of the candidates].
Moderator: CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Audience: Approximately 2,000 in the audience. The majority of the tickets went to the SC Democratic Party, DNC and The Citadel -- in that order. Google/YouTube and CNN had a handful.
Broadcast: Live on CNN; simulcast on CNN.com, CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN Radio and CNN Airport Network. CNN.com’s Election Center, available at www.CNN.com/ELECTION.
Format: Two-hour debate featuring video questions submitted to YouTube. Additionally each of the campaigns provided a 30-second video that was shown during the course of the event.
Background: This was the first debate officially sanctioned by the DNC.
Additional Notes:
-All told 38
YouTube video questions were asked (plus one stage-setter) from the
2,989 questions submitted starting on June 14. These ranged from
the first entry, in which "The Resident" in Brooklyn, NY asked about the
candidates' views on net neutrality, to entry number 2,989 in which Tommy
Wenzlau from San Marino, CA asked what the candidates would do to ensure
that all Americans rich and poor have an opportunity for an equal education.
RNC chairman Mike Duncan submitted a question asking Senators Clinton and
Obama about their views on a date certain for withdrawal from Iraq.
Various interest groups sought to mobilize their activists and supporters
to submit relevant questions. >
Moderator Anderson Cooper mentioned the Biden campaign's effort >
to get its "What then?" question asked in his introduction.
CNN Senior Vice President David Bohrman
and CNN Political Director Sam Feist led a small group that reviewed all
the questions and selected those to be asked. There was some grumbling
in the netroots that YouTube users should have been allowed to select the
questions from among those submitted. (A site called Community
Counts by David Colarusso allowed visitors vote on the questions they
wanted asked; this drew some attention but did not affect the debate).
-The Dodd campaign provided this breakdown
of the time each candidate spoke:
Biden: 7:05
Clinton: 12:26
Dodd: 8:39
Edwards: 10:30
Gravel: 4:10
Kucinich: 6:01
Obama: 15:11
Richardson: 9:18
Cooper: 11:37
-The candidates' positions on the stage
also favored the frontrunners by placing them in the center:
(l to r) Gravel, Dodd, Edwards, Clinton,
Obama, Richardson, Kucinich. (note)
Summary
of campaign press releases from the debate
CNN press releases 1,
2,
3
Other
primary debates and forums
Copyright © 2007 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action |
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