While we’ve already had five different posts about the Democratic debate the other day, bear with us one more time to revisit it to pick out a little talked about issue (at least in the debates): education. There was only one question about education in the debate and it dealt with the No Child Left [...]

The Stump has a lot of good news today, on Thompson changing his campaign manager, on Obama being down and maybe out, and on Rudy’s electability Salon.com has a really cool piece on how the Democrats differ on Iraq. The Politico has the story that Obama is now modeling his campaign on that of Ronald [...]

Well, people have been calling this the “YouTube Election” for a while, but now with the CNN/YouTube debate this seems to take a new meaning. The campaigns really are run by the internet now, and it has been proven with this new and unfortunately unsuccessful debate style. You can read all about the flaws of [...]

CNN in correlation with YouTube put together one of the most diabolically bad formats for a debate that we have seen in our lives. Off the bat, the YouTube debate was a terrible idea because it uses YouTube, a video uploading site notorious for its terrible image and sound quality. Almost all the submitted videos [...]

All news today is on yesterday’s YouTube debate, it’s the thing to talk about. Fred Barnes of The Daily Standard says that Hillary Outflanked Obama last night. The Washington Post claims that the voice of the public added an edge to the debate. Top of the Ticket has a well put together commentary on The [...]

Some of the candidates are starting to follow a strong debating strategy — using their time to present a key message. Candidates prepare on many topics and have strong positions and lines that they want to deliver. The format prevents some from answering each question. There is not penalty in the rules for going “off [...]

Most of our team is watching and discussing the debate, and we will (of course) write about it. Meanwhile, John Fout is blogging in real time as he watches. Enjoy his running commentary at TheStreet.com’s political blog.

On CNN tonight, 6pm Chicago time, from the Citadel, a Democratic Debate sponsored by CNN and YouTube. Anderson Cooper is the host. Questions will be video questions submitted to YouTube by July 22. Wired Science interviewed Anderson Cooper about the innovative format, and got lots of valuable information about how the debate will play out. [...]

Potus made our weekend sandwich at 10:00 Sunday night, now we have two in a row. Sorry. The LA Times Top of the Ticket has a ridiculous article suggesting the length of a candidates’ name affects whether or not they’re voted for. ABC News thinks that Clinton‘s experience wins over Obama‘s New Direction. The Stump [...]

The link of the weekend is from The Street.com’s Politics Blog. John Fout talks about the possibility of the Iraq war being a non-issue in the upcoming election. Click the sandwich! In his Captain’s Quarters blog Captain Ed talks about Democrats and terrorism. In the LA Times, CNN has an interesting article about a not [...]