As the Denver Post reported yesterday:
Colorado’s is the third YouTube Senate debate, and the candidates were required to answer five questions submitted by users, including one from a man who – holding a rifle on his lap – asked their views on the original meaning of the Second Amendment.
“We thought with the massive amount of attention the (Colorado) race is getting nationally and how close it’s been, it was really a natural fit for us,” Steve Grove, the site’s political director, said of the Senate contest between Republican Bob Schaffer and Democrat Mark Udall.
“YouTube is a different format, and it will be interesting to see how they react to that,” Grove said.
It’s likely to be a little less spontaneous than the presidential version, however. Those debates were broadcast on live TV, with the candidates responding immediately to videotaped questions that ranged from the thoughtful to the bizarre…
Editor’s note: The YouTube debate scheduled for today between Senate candidates Mark Udall and Bob Schaffer has been delayed until Tuesday because of unspecified problems, YouTube officials announced this morning.
We heard the delay in posting the debate was requested by the Schaffer campaign–did they need a few takes to get it just right?
Anyway, check it out and decide for yourself, post the more interesting responses in the comments. We haven’t watched all the question videos yet but are still hoping to see some real-life sock puppets.
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Question on Renewable energy:
Udall really answered this question well, I thought. He definitely has the edge on this issue.
Bob is so unbelievably bad talking into the camera. How many tries did it take to get a good one? Was that the best take? Oh man, Bob is so much better live than on camera.
Oh, and that kid with the rifle asking about the second amendment is priceless.
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Very sorry. Posted in wrong thread. Please disregard even more than usual…
Is that possible 🙂
About a year ago Time or similar did some research as to which justices had a record of overturning Congress’ laws.
It was the conservative justices, hands down.
of judicial activism documented in Page Smith’s six-volume “People’s history of the United States.” Overwhelmingly, it is right-wing activism in defense of capital against Labor, with the Warren Court being about the only exception.
The poll then transitively shows that Obama supporters favor right wing judicial activism?
Aha!
🙂
for they know not what they do 😉
I knew that in recent history the court’s conservatives were activist, but I didn’t know it’s a long term trend.
You are a font of knowledge, Bob!
for the horrible equality they gave us with Brown v. Kansas Board of Education and Lawrence v. Texas.
A gross distortion of the law even at the time.
It was bad law, it let the right-wing offf the hook because they didn’t have it decide people’s votes, and that single decision let the right hang “judicial activism” around the left when it is mostly the right.
I’d like to see we Dems take the lead in getting it overturned as bad law (yeah, right, that’ll happen).
I’d say “posted” is a bit of a stretch. Maybe “in the process of posting.”