Facebook Promotes Politics, Will it Work?

Yesterday I wrote about how the Facebook and ABC News partnership was receiving a lot of negative press. I even called the partnership irrelevant. Soon after I received an e-mail from Facebook’s communications department stating “your posting seemed to talk mainly about content distribution. The partnership is actually about starting and ongoing debate and discussion about the presidential election—both on Facebook with the US Politics application and in a real-world, televised debate on Jan. 5.”

Perhaps