Press release from McCain's shop:

SENATOR MCCAIN TO PARTICIPATE IN HISTORIC CNN/YOUTUBE DEBATE

For Immediate Release
Contact: Brooke Buchanan
Friday, July 20, 2007
703-650-5550

ARLINGTON, VA - U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that the Arizona Senator will participate in the CNN/YouTube debate to be held on Monday, September 17th in Florida.

"I look forward to returning to Florida and communicating with voters nationwide in the CNN/YouTube presidential debate. I commend both CNN and YouTube for hosting this historic debate that will increase participation by opening up the political conversation to interested voters across the country via user-generated video," said Senator John McCain.

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On a related-note that I'll blog about more in-depth this weekend, TechRepublican will be live-blogging the Democratic CNN/YouTube debate from the debate in Charleston, S.C.

Stay tuned.