Is a YouTube video with a talking snowman an unseemly way to go about the democratic process? Apparently it is, per Mr. Romney. He and Rudy Giuliani have scheduling conflicts with the Republican version of the CNN-YouTube debate, and Romney says the snowman thing is just too silly. Sorry, guys, democracy is on the Internet now. Get with the times. Hey, you can also download songs to your AT&T cell phones now! Oh, no, sorry, not the iPhone. Didn’t mean to get you all excited.

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