Pizza Hut backed off its attempts to crash the second presidential debate with the offer to provide pizza for life to a person asking a toppings question to the candidates during the town hall debate which topping they prefer. Instead, they are shifting their offering to the masses, asking them to vote at PizzaHutSocial.com {link no longer active} on what pizza toppings they like with a random voter receiving pizza for life.
“We’re no longer asking a few hundred attendees at the town hall presidential debate on Oct. 16 to pose the question, rather we’re bringing the question — sausage or pepperoni — to millions of Americans,” said Pizza Hut CMO Kurt Kane.
It is unknown if this move was done because of push-back against the idea of commercializing a respected part of the democratic process or whether the change was a reflection that such a question had an almost infinitesimal chance of being asked, given rules agreed to by both campaigns {link no longer active}.
