RTFA: http://www.236.com/video/2008/watch_synchronized_p…
Did watching the 2nd and 3rd debates give you a feeling of déjà vu? This montage of synced-up footage from all three presidential debates confirms our deep-seated belief that every debate was exactly the same.
I for one welcome our synchronized robot overlords.
Seriously, this mashup is fantastic. It’s pretty funny, but more than that, it’s just amazing. Via boingboing.
RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvdfO0lq4rQ#
Full Video of the Third 2008 Presidential Debate with Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Here it is, compliments of C-SPAN and YouTube.
The debate between Senator John McCain and Senator Barak Obama was held at 9PM EST on October 15, 2008. The location of the debate was Hofstra University, in Hempstead, NY.
First of all, thanks to everyone who stopped by RTFA for information about the debate. I hope you got some pointers for a good place to watch online.
To say it in three words: Obama, Obama, Obama. That’s where the attention was, and frankly, that’s where both parties wanted the attention to be.
McCain spent his time providing characterizations of Obama, Obama’s associates, and Obama’s policies, but neglected to mention his own platform. I think the McCain strategy was Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. In other words, if people can simply be convinced that Obama is too much of a risk, then it doesn’t really matter what McCain has in store.
Obama had some time to explain his positions, but he was also forced to defend against some accusations (e.g. Ayers). The important point was “don’t mess up,” and as usual, Obama delivered.
Was there a “winner?” The first poll I found comes from CBS:
Fifty-three percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed identified Democratic nominee Barack Obama as the winner of tonight’s debate. Twenty-two percent said Republican rival John McCain won. Twenty-five percent saw the debate as a draw.
As of the night of the debate, pollster.com has the electoral college map:
UPDATE 2008-10-16 …for something completely fun and different, here’s great live music: John Frusciante, Flea & Omar Rodriguez
UPDATE 2008-10-17 This video pretty much sums it up
My previous article is referenced by my post to Slashdot, and the comments thread has a bunch of good suggestions for watching online.
wwwrench points out a technique for watching the CNN stream of the debates if you have Linux:
You can get it to work [on Linux]: just use VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
and open the video stream:
File->Open Network Stream
check HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MSS and put in the url http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx
Also, C-SPAN options should be “analyst-free”:
http://www.c-span.org/politics/c-span-Debate-Cam.aspx
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_rm.aspx
UPDATE 2008-10-16 Brief RTFA analysis here
UPDATE 2008-10-16 Full 1.5-hour C-SPAN video here
UPDATE 2008-10-16 …for something completely fun and different, here’s great live music: John Frusciante, Flea & Omar Rodriguez
RTFA: http://www.hulu.com/spotlight/election08
Watch the final Presidential Debate live in 1 day, 06:36:35
The third and final 2008 presidential debate will be streaming live, so if you don’t have a TV, you can watch online. Networks will start broadcasting the debate at 9PM EST. The debate is located at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, NY.
From the Hulu press release:
Hulu, the video site joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp., plans to stream the remaining two presidential debates live.
Appropriately, given its ownership, the stream from the first debate will come from NBC News, while the second and final debate will be programmed from the Fox News feed.
I was looking for an alternate feed, and CNN seems to constantly stream their programming live here:
http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx
UPDATE 2008-10-15 Linux and C-SPAN options here
UPDATE 2008-10-16 Brief RTFA analysis here
UPDATE 2008-10-16 Full 1.5-hour C-SPAN video here
UPDATE 2008-10-16 …for something completely fun and different, here’s great live music: John Frusciante, Flea & Omar Rodriguez