Presidential Debates Coming Soon
It's now fewer than 4 months until the first of the presidential debates of the 2008 (yes, they will be in 2007) campaign season.
At first, it looked like South Carolina would host the debate debuts of the Democratic and Republican contenders. In August, the South Carolina GOP announced that they would host a debate May 15, 2007 to be held at the University of South Carolina for GOP presidential hopefuls. Last week MSNBC and the SC Democratic party announced that they will host a debate April 26, 2007 at South Carolina State University for the Democratic contenders.
But today New Hampshire jumped to the front of the line with the announcement by CNN, WUMR and the Union Leader that on April 4 and 5 of this year the news organizations would be hosting presidential debates.
DebateScoop will have full coverage. We plan to have on site as well as on line reporters and analysts. While the "real" impact of the debates is, ironically, best assessed from the mediated perspective, behind the scenes reporting will enable us to round out the picture and to ask questions of the participants (candidates, spinners, media) that may help explain what we see on the screen.
