http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/18573/thoughts_on_last_night_s_debates Comments for "Thoughts on Last Night's Debates" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/18573/thoughts_on_last_night_s_debates#comment-1627 <p>I honestly watched the debate with the laptop closed so I did not see what was happening on Facebook. I also watched it an hour later so the whole "live" thing didn't reach me anyway.</p> <p>With that said I am curious about the makeup of the people watching. Did you get a sense of the politics of the people talking on Facebook? Because from the brief moments where Diane Sawyer was asking the girl watching the Interactive end, I had the impression it was an overwhelmingly liberal audience. The moment I chuckled at was when the woman reported that people online were disappointed that Republicans did not "discuss the environment more" or were not satisfied or something.</p> <p>I am looking over the Facebook page now and it seems to pretty much be the very liberal Obama/Edwards/Ron Paul/Push John McCain as the Republican candidate crowd that takes over a great deal of the online discussion. If that is true I don't know exactly what tapping into this audience would have added.</p> Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:10:19 -0500 Jeff Commaroto comment 1627 at http://www.techpresident.com http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/18573/thoughts_on_last_night_s_debates <p>In last night's back-to-back Republican and Democratic Facebook/ABC debates in New Hampshire, the stakes were high, the chairs were comfy, and Facebook was jammin&#8217;. Too bad the Facebook part did little to affect the debate.</p> <p><a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/18573/thoughts_on_last_night_s_debates">read more</a></p> http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/18573/thoughts_on_last_night_s_debates#comment ABC debates Facebook Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:15:52 -0500 Joshua Levy 18573 at http://www.techpresident.com