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The 10Questions Project
August 4, 2010
I posted this earlier in the week on RedState.
That is why we are so excited about working with the Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) on the 10Questions project. While American Majority and PDF might not always agree on everything, we do agree on this: we need better, more honest, more accountable government. Personal Democracy Forum, in partnership with Google and YouTube, has created a platform to facilitate citizen involvement with political candidates. If, according to the old saying, “all politics is local,” then the time has come to demonstrate that new, interactive media can invigorate local civic engagement around elections — moving from interest to involvement, from spectacle to authentic civil society.
If you are serious about ensuring politicians stay accountable and transparent, join us in this new kind of conversation. Here’s how it works:
- Citizens can post text questions or video questions through YouTube for candidates in the 2010 midterm elections; each race has its own page where they aggregate questions posed for candidates for that specific race.
- Using Google technology, visitors to 10Questions can vote questions up and down. After a set period of public engagement, the 10 top-voted questions in each race are posed to the candidates.
- Candidates then have the opportunity to post video responses, and voters rate those responses for completeness, directness, depth and substance — criteria that are sometimes hard to get out of politicians in the rapid-fire context of a live question.
- Taking part/action only takes a few minutes and anyone can participate in the debate.
- Question submission and voting are open through September 14, so take action now!
For too long the left has been early adopters of technology and strategies such as this, but why? Why can’t limited government conservatives adopt online tools to advance the struggle for a more accountable and responsible government? Now is your time to prove that we can play in the same sandbox. Visit 10Questions.com and get involved. Due to limited resources, and the fact that this is a new idea, not all states and races could be tracked. If you do not see your state accounted for, do not hesitate to submit a request here.
The time has come to update political debates for the digital age. Join with American Majority and the Personal Democracy Forum to change the conversation in this country. Politicians answer to us, so let’s start asking the tough questions.
We the people the common people of this country, we are the ]majority but if we stand on the side lines and do nothing it does make any differece if we are the majority. The left will go on doing what there doing and we will lose this country and our freedom and we can blame nobody but ourselfs. It is now time that all the groups come togather and be united, divided we fall united we stand!