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Wake Debate Watch Covered

By Allan Louden 10/08/2008 02:11:46 PM EST

Wake's debate watch party drew around 250 students last night. WXII, local television (Video) covered the event. Also Luke Russert for NBC news covered the event and his video can be found at NBC.com

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Wake Forest University Seeks NC Primary Debate

By Allan Louden 03/21/2008 11:15:50 AM EST

Wake Forest University announced Thursday interest in hosting a potential NC primary debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama before the critical May 6th primary.

The Obama campaign originally "accepted" to debate on April 19th, three days before the Pennsylvania primary, but the date has since become fluid. The Hillary Clinton campaign has not commented on participating in a NC Debate.

If Clinton wins "big" in Pennsylvania, as current polling suggest she may not want to break the "momentum" with a high profile debate later that week. There would be political heat, however, as the campaign has called for debates, and more debates, including two high profile political spots that ran in the Wisconsin primary.

If a debate is negotiated with a network host and accepted by Obama, it would be difficult for Clinton to decline without being seen as "writing off" the NC primary.

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YouTube Debates Go International

By Allan Louden 02/12/2008 01:53:38 PM EST

Political debates utilizing the YouTube format are occurring in other countries following the CNN/YouTube model established in the 2007 primary season. My search has not been systematic but the globalization of the format came to our attention when Georgios Stasinopoulos (Athens) had two of three questions he prepared selected and asked during the Greek national telecast.

Georgios is an alumni of Ben Franklin Transatlantic Initiative, a State Department program hosted at Wake Forest University. The students prepared questions for the Democratic and Republican YouTube debates this past summer. (Examples)

In this question he asks about the integration of immigrants in Greek society.