Click for yourself: debates.news.yahoo.com

Since the YouTube ‘debate’ the intranet is running hot for anything video with political candidates. This time Yahoo!, Charlie Rose, The Huffington Post and Slate teamed up for a mashup.

I think this is a step in the right direction, although I find almost all questions still too lame and ‘nice’. It is also noteworthy that the Republicans so far have been afraid of responding to net questions.

The web is becoming slowly dethroning TV as the most important advertising platform for political messages. In the last french election all candidates literally poured millions of Euros into their web sites.

So the politicians bring their message to the web - no it has to be seen if the people on the web really can influence the politicians?