10Questions is a project of Personal Democracy Forum

10Questions is an experiment, and as such, different campaigns have different perceptions of the value added provided by directly answering questions submitted by and voted on by constituents.

Many campaigns across the country have enthusiastically agreed to sit down and video their candidate responding directly, via video, with thoughtful responses. Candidates like Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman in Califorina, Kendrick Meek and Charlie Crist in Florida, and Nathan Deal and Roy Barnes in Georgia are all busy filming their answers over the next week.

And some campaigns mistakenly believe that 10Questions is yet another "questionnaire." See Nick Judd's earlier post 10Questions.com: A Questionnaire This Ain't, for more on that.

Mike Trask, Press Secretary for Rory Reid, candidate for Governor in Nevada, today told me that "For the moment we don't have time to answer these questions," going on to say that the campaign sees no value in answering questions that they view as unrelated to being a governor, and those that people outside of the state helped to prioritize.

We know that with 33 days until the election campaigns are busier than ever, and that 10Questions isn't a perfect system- in many places the platform and our media partners did not engage a critical mass of constituents. That being said, these questions and the candidates' answeres will be noticed by the people who cast the more than 12,000 votes from across the country on 1,078 questions and the millions of readers and viewers of our local and national media partners and therefore, one would hope they would make time for them.

I cannot help but wonder if campaigns focused a little more on directly engaging their constituents and a little less on ugly attack ads, the public would be better served?