10Questions Update: 10 Days to Ask Questions and New Videos!
BY Daniel Teweles | Friday, September 10 2010
To help pump up the crowd (pump it up) and spread the word about 10Questions, we made a new video with our good friend Jacob Soboroff, Executive Director of Why Tuesday?.
10Questions is a project of Personal Democracy Forum
When the clock strikes midnight on Tuesday, September 21st, the people will have spoken. After over two months of submitting and voting on questions, voters will have collectively built crowdsourced, IP-address-mapped, popularity-ranked, media-partner-endorsed lists of 10 questions for the candidates in 46 of the nation's most competitive races. After thousands of votes and hundreds of questions, we'll have a compendium of issues and questions that people in 11 states have determined most worthy of attention by would-be elected officials.
Between now and the 21st, individual citizens, grassroots networks, and political interests who leverage their networks (both local and online) have the ability to get their questions and their issues into the top 10 in any forum, where candidates will address those questions, on record, on video, on the Internet — and will be held accountable for the substance of their answers.
Our media partners plan on showcasing the candidates' answers, using them as part of their ongoing election coverage, voter guides, and endorsement materials. In so doing, they'll be putting each candidate's words up for evaluation based on one deceptively simple criteria: Did the candidate actually answer the question? You decide, and the entire Internet will be able to see.
Candidates who aim to prove they've got the ideas it will take to lead their states and the nation can do so in a forum that rewards real solutions over rhetoric. Voters tired of the same old hot air can highlight candidates that try straight talk for a change.
There's value here for both voters and candidates. Now it's up to you to take action, and define the debate.
And to satisfy the voracious video appetites of the interwebs, we also have a longer video available for your viewing pleasure:
Candidate:
We're excited to announce that Charlie Crist is the latest candidate sign on to answer his constituents' questions in the coming weeks, joining his opponent Kendrick Meek (D). We're now re-inviting the third candidate, Marco Rubio (R), to join his fellow candidates and directly respond to their voters' questions. You can ask and vote on questions for them all here.
Gov. Charlie Crist
FL-Senate
Don't see your candidate(s) participating? Email them; tell them you think they should answer the questions that you and your fellow constituents have identified as the most important.
Site Wide Totals:
Total Questions: 576
Total Votes: 6,036
Most Activity:
GA- Governor Forum
Total Questions: 85
Total Votes: 1,491
Partners:
Our all star line up of regional, hyper-local and national partners continues to grow, with several particularly innovative partners joining the roster this week. The Orange County Register, Sayfie Review, Freedom Politics and Blog Her are all using 10Questions to engage their readers and/or members.
In the Press:
In the past week, AlterNet, Macon Telegraph, Pop Culture Activist, John Locke Foundation, Why Tuesday?, The Sacramento Bee, Think MTV, Sunlight Foundation, and Arizona Central have all covered 10Questions.