Political Blog Pushes for Online Debate in ‘08
Popular liberal political blog The Huffington Post wants to host an online debate between presidential candidates for the 2008 election, says the Reuters news agency.
Despite the site’s liberal bent, founder Ariana Huffington describes the Huffington Post, AKA “HuffPo”, as a blog that covers both sides of the fence. To that effect, the site has contacted both the Democratic and Republican leadership to set up the debate.
The feasibility of the debate depends entirely on the responses from the two major parties. If Huffington gets her way, the debates would include streaming video, along with questions fielded by online users.
“2008 is going to be critical in terms of the coverage of the election,” said the site’s founder Ariana Huffington in an interview with Reuters. “We are working to put together the first primary online debate among candidates and working out the logistics of how this is going to happen.”
The Huffington Post, rated the second most popular political blog in December 2006 with 3 million monthly visitors by Hitwise, recently hired a former BBC journalist as managing editor to handle the site’s growth through 2007.
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