SavetheDebate.com helps, um, save the debate
By Joshua Levy, 08/13/2007 - 2:50pm

TechRepublican is reporting that SavetheDebate.com is largely responsible for rescheduling of the the Republican CNN/YouTube debate, which will now be held on November 28th.

The Washington Times gave credit to the team of conservative bloggers (which includes techPresident contributors David All and Patrick Ruffini):

Multiple sources close to the discussions say it was pressure from conservative bloggers, not scheduling conflicts, that made the reluctant Republican candidates reconsider. Two weeks ago, a number of prominent conservative bloggers launched an effort called "Save the Debate" that generated what one of the campaigns referred to as a "full-court press," from conservative activists.

Mitt Romney still hasn't confirmed that he'll play along, but since he's the only one not yet participating, hopefully he'll see the light and join up.

Now SavetheDebate is turning to getting quality videos uploaded. They're encouraging readers to upload videos through the SavetheDebate site, and will include those videos on a "videowall" representing all of the submissions.

Even more interesting, they're asking for "Video Volunteers" to head offline to "county fairs, shopping malls, and local GOP events," where they can get regular non-YouTube-using folks to ask questions on video as well.



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