iChat with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards and Ron Paul.
Google and Apple have partnered with the League of Rural Voters to host a national iChat conversation today in an attempt to galvanize rural and inner-city youths (18- to 25-year-olds not attending college) to vote.
The article promoting the weekend event highlighted the fact that college students get a lot of attention from the media, candidates and even celebrities encouraging them to vote (e.g., "Rock the Vote," Ron Paul's MySpace, the amazing television commercial with Kanye West and Mike Meyers), and that it's time the frequently ignored -- those who didn't go to college -- get the attention.
Co-founder and executive director of GenerationEngage Adrian Talbott promoted the idea of having iChat conversations, saying:
“The model of political discourse where candidates raise money for 30-second commercials doesn’t work for young people. Young people aren’t very interested in canned ads and they can’t afford to donate the money that pays for them.”
Each of the candidates will take turns answering questions via video conferencing with people from San Jose, Calif.; Raleigh N.C.; and Ames, Iowa held at Iowa State University to discuss infrastructural disparities between rural and inner-city communities.
If those inner-city and rural kids are as socio-economically deprived as the article implies, I hope the possibility that they may not own Macs doesn't ruin the candidates' admirable intentions of reaching out.
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