Monday night's presidential debate started on the Web, and it will end on the Web, in the thousands of conversation threads, uploaded videos, comments and even cartoon responses to the the two-hour television broadcast. The eight Democratic presidential candidates fielded questions in Charleston, South Carolina, from a giant video screen that projected questions from videos uploaded to video-sharing site YouTube.Seconds after the candidates answered, CNN.com users weighed in online regarding candidate performance, the groundbreaking format, questions they liked and questions they wished were asked.
There was a heated discussion during the debate on CNN.com's Political Ticker blog about a question from Rev. Reggie Longcrier of Hickory, North Carolina, who asked former Sen. John Edwards whether it is acceptable to use religion to "deny gay Americans their full and equal rights."
Edwards said he feels "enormous peronal conflict" on this issue, and does not agree with same-sex marriage.
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