Lets get political

As I mention before in 2007 CNN, aired the presidential debates for the first time on YouTube. Doing that actually had a large impact on how younger citizens voted. In an article written by Mitchel S. McKinney and Leslie A. Rill. They credit a part of Obama's win to the sheer amount of Facebook  posts, chain text and YouTube videos that were put out there.

They believe that using these social medias, encouraged people to go out there and vote. I feel like its been said so many times that our votes don't really count, and as we can see from the 2008 election that is just not true. They downside to using YouTube is that the clips of the debate that were put online where chosen based on entertainment value as opposed to actually merit.

One of the great things about CNN using YouTube is that she set up these sort of meet the candidate videos, where people could come and  ask the candidates questions. those videos where then posted online and I think that, that created a sort of connection to each candidate. It helped people see them as real people and not just someone talking on their TV. The down side for these candidates is that if they messed up and answer the whole world could see it.