It’s a first: A candidate responds directly to a voter’s comments via YouTube. Here’s Dennis Kucinich replying to my esteemed competitor, James Kotecki:

Here was James’ video that elicited the response:

And here is James responding to Kucinich responding to him. Is this giving anybody else a headache? I love it. But it’s too bad this is such a meta exchange: video on video on video. What I want to see is candidates responding to voters on issues. I’ll repeat: David Cameron in the UK answers five questions a week, three of them voted up by the voters. And he’s not even running for office (well, not officially).

(Maybe I’m just jealous that McCain hasn’t responded to my advice.)

At Politics online, James and I finally got to meet up. I discovered him way back a month ago. He’s a student at Georgetown, soon to graduate, and is also working with Captitol Hill Broadcasting. Here’s our meetup in Washington, shot by James’ girlfriend, Emily Freifeld, a journalism student at American University:

And here are James and me quoted in a Washington Post story on the YouTube campaign.