Hopefully it'll be better than the YouTube Debates

So far it's been all about tech issues. I guess that's what you'd expect from a hi-tech tech service like Twitter. I copied some of the debate off of it, here it is:

What's an example of how IT can "empower citizens

A great example of "digital empowerment" is the Sunlight Foundation. it gives citizens day-by-day details on Congressional action

Tech leaders have rallied to Obama. Are they responding to his policies or his "changiness

I think tech leaders have rallied to Obama for the same reason I did; he reached out to the people we respect most and listened!

Is Mc's oppo to net tax an instinctive negative response to taxes, or a instinctive positive one to innovation? How so?

Over the last seven years of the Bush Admin. we've seen what happens when policy is made w/o top-rate, unbiased, scientific data

Well there is a couple misunderstandings there. What we've always had is a "democratic republic" not a democracy since we have to depend on representatives to carry out "the will of the people" whether or not they do represent the majority of the people or even the best interests of the country has always been a big subject for debate itself.

That's probably something that should be addressed on Twitter so you should send those questions to Anne Marie Cox

Secondly it's pretty much been proven even if we had a true democracy that most people aren't ready for it. I'm sure you're seen that point proven just by the kind of comments that are left on the posts here. An informed and intelligent populace is essential for a true democracy to act in the country's best interests which was the reason for using the representatives in the first place but they haven't worked out all that much better.

Money talks, since most of society goes by "Those who have the gold make the rules" Until people have developed beyond that kind of attitudes and more efficient methods are put into place, it'll have to be struggled with.

As I mentioned before there is a difference in degrees and in this election those differences matter since the damage can be made a lot worse by those who don't even pretend to act in the country's best interest and by those who at least intend to try and repair the damage.

The only reason the rhetoric is recycled every election is that is seems to be effective in motivating those that vote based on pushing emotional hot buttons, ethnocentric beliefs of their "crowd" and the competition of a horse race. Until people have developed beyond those so that they no longer can be conditioned like Pavlov's dog, it'll continue to be used since it works.

The "sour grapes" part was bringing in the issue that was never mentioned in the article since I don't think Twitter even uses sponsors. Whatever ads I've seen on there are mostly for tech stuff.

It's not about what 'I want', it's about proving this country is a Democracy. And I have seen less proof of that with every day that goes by. I was actually referring to televised debates in my response, BTW. As for anything on the Internet, not interested as well if it only includes the same two. That's not so much 'sour grapes' as just becoming tired of the same rhetoric every election cycle regarding debates in general.

we should have a current tv debate and let all the canidates come. yes all of them

Isn't that like saying, if you can't get everything you want that it's not worth anything?

Since it's being set up by Twitter, I doubt it has anything to do with coal of any type, isn't that just "sour grapes?'

If you followed politics for any amount of time, you ought to know that it's all about compromise.

As Al Gore said in his speech last week "Elections Matter" and if the last decade has proved anything it's degrees matter quite a bit also.

From all the damage that has been done "The difference between bad and worse is a lot sharper than the difference between good and better"

You could always ask Ana Marie Cox to see if she can contact Ralph Nader and Bob Barr to see if they can be included to set them up with Twitter accounts.

Not watching them. Tired of seeing only the money represented. There are other candidates as well. If they can't be included, then we know that this isn't a real Democracy. They'll probably have 'clean coal' as their sponsor anyway.