People have said that the television changed the way elections were conducted. The crucial point is the presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. People have surmised that if it were not for the televised debate between the two presidential hopefuls, then JFK wouldn't have won.
Now it's the internet that's changing the landscape of elections. Just recently there was the YouTube round of presidential debates in the United States. Through YouTube, booboos of a number of candidates have been broadcast, and much more often than not, they spelled the end of the political lives of the candidates who committed the booboos.
In the Philippines, I haven't come across any politician who used YouTube as a vehicle for his or her campaign. There is a limit on how much hopefuls can spend on television advertising, and also on how many ads they can run. With YouTube, which is free, will the limit apply? The COMELEC may need to come up with new regulations with respect to campaigning via the internet. However, does the COMELEC have the capability to do so? This adds more work to them, and should they be allowed to regulate such?
Will we have our own version of the YouTube debates?
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