Educator David Colarusso has a suggestion on how the YouTube community can help improve YouTube’s YouChoose ‘08 Spotlight, in which candidates answer questions posed by viewers.

Here’s Colarusso’s site where he has aggregated responses to a candidate’s video and further explains his plan.

It’s a good thought that needs more exposure and expansion. Perhaps the community can urge YouTube to facilitate voter-candidate interaction by adding a feature to ‘08 Spotlight that allows viewers to easily vote up the questions they’d like to see answered.

Jarvis adds: It’s a great idea and exactly right: We, the people, should be deciding the questions that they, the candidates, answer. Colarusso is doing the best he can to make this happen on his own site. But it should not be difficult for YouTube to add Digg/Reddit voting functionality.

Note well that this is how the Conservatives’ Webcameron already operates in the UK: The voters vote up the questions he should answer. They pick three a week and Cameron’s people pick two more.

YouTube Spotlight, though, won’t be the best venue for this discussion because it is led by the candidates themselves: they ask us their vapid questions. Instead, with PrezConference, we’re suggesting that the people ask their own substantive questions of the candidates. And then, Colarusso’s right, we need to decide which are the questions we all want addressed.