IP Democracy: Republican Debate Spurs Bizarre YouTube Questions

After a lot of drama, the Republican presidential candidates are finally going to hold their own YouTube-powered debate tomorrow night at 8 pm ET. As of this morning, 4,927 video questions for the candidates were posted on YouTube's site.

Despite the generally button-downed, conservative nature of the Republican Party, I don't see a lot of difference between the questions posed in this debate compared to the ones submitted for the Democratic YouTube debate. If anything the GOP line-up features far more colorful characters than does the Democratic slate, resulting in even more off-the-wall YouTube videos than were submitted for the Democratic debate.

As this Washington Post piece notes, Billiam the snowman is back, joined by Mr. Potato Head and Charlie the Unicorn (which I couldn't find myself...the YouTube debate videos aren't easily searched). But Rudy Guiliani has brought out more than his fair share of eccentrics and Mitt Romney's Mormonism has induced some weird religious questions and videos.

One of my favorites is this guy asking if Romney wears "magic underpants," referring to the sacred undergarments that many Mormons wear.

p.s. Don't miss the Chicken Lady for V.P.

p.p.s. TechPresident is running its own effort at user-generated video questions for the candidates. They want the candidates to answer in video form too.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on November 27, 2007 9:24 AM to IP Democracy