A few months back, I chided John Edwards's team for not effectively using its mobile text campaign. Then I softened my stance a little bit as they started using Twitter more effectively than their own text program, and now I truly believe that they have the entire mobile messaging strategy right.

As you know, there's a GOP Presidential debate tonight in South Carolina (Fox News Channel, 9 PM Eastern).

I'm not going to watch it until it makes its way in to easier-to-digest clips on YouTube and after I read all of my favorite conservative blogs for their reactions.

Besides, it's not like they're going to talk about any of the issues I care about, e.g., the Internet, net neutrality, etc.

Since I'm not going to watch, and I'm going to support whoever our nominee ends up being regardless of who "wins" the debate, (I can't vote FYI because I live in Washington, DC), I'll simply offer some free advice that I'd be giving to a candidate -- if I were working for him. So here goes:

You know better... Read my free advice after the jump

Though the focus of techPresident is on how the candidates use the Web, as well as how voter-generated content affects the process, I've become very interested in what methods are being employed in the mobile space. One in particular wasn't very hard to find, it was in John Edwards YouTube video, "Tomorrow Begins Today," where he announces his candidacy and asks you to "Text Hope to 30644."