With the 2012 presidential election season tumultuously underway, the USC Annenberg School's Center on Communication Leadership and Policy (CCLP) in coordination with the USC's Bedrosian Center and the USC Unruh Institute of Politics continues their successful Road to the White House forum promoting political discourse between leading academics and the community to help inform and shape political policies. The first CCLP-hosted forum of the new semester kicked off on Wednesday January 25, 2012, to a successful reception spotlighting U.S foreign policy relations in the Middle East and North Africa and the effect of new media technologies shaping political discourse……