Mike Gravel is loving answering questions on YouTube and he just asked YouTube to ask voters to ask more questions:
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YouTube’s Steve Grove gives causes tips on how to use online video to meet your mission:
Here are some recent questions from voters for the upcoming CNN/YouTube Republican debate.
This question may not be asked in the upcoming debate, but you can bet it will be raised if Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican nomination: Davis Fleetwood notes that in the aftermath of 9/11 Mayor Giuliani suggested staying in office past the end of his term. He asks Rudy if he sees any circumstance where he would support a sitting President extending his term past constitutional limits.
Noting that the candidates “look nothing like me,” Rodney asks whether there will be diversity in a Republican administration.
Over 1550 videos have been submitted for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate. Here are some recent questions:
Antoaneta from Washington says President Bush has taken 463 days of vacation time during the past 6 years and asks the candidates: “What are your vacation habits.”
Journalism student Gabriela asks the candidates if they suppport the Dream Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act).
This young Nebraskan wants to know what the candidates are going to do about “the emerging military threat of China.”
The Giuliani campaign says it’s relaunched its website and will soon be providing neat features like blogs and photos and videos!!
We’ve had photo ops and press ops and now we have YouTube ops. Here’s Elizabeth Edwards giving pencils and stuff to a deserving school in New Hampshire. You can hear the click of cameras. You see a microphone with a number on it. But it’s also an opportunity for the campaign to look good, of course. I wonder how much YouTube will now factor into campaign scheduling: rather than just sending a video camera along, will they decide to do events because they can have a video camera there?
Nearly 1500 voter videos have been submitted for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate. Here are some recent questions:
The very expressive Chuck from NJ asks the metaphysical question: “What is a Republican?”
Thanks to Michael Vick, dog fighting is on this young Californian’s mind.
A retired (gay) Brigadier General asks the gays in the military question.
Growing hemp is the burning issue of the day for this voter.
Governor Bill Richardson continues to answer voter questions on YouTube. Here’s one about Native American issues:
Sound Bites:
- “We will have a cabinet-level department to deal with Native American issues.”
- “I will treat Native American governments as a separate government.”
- “There will be a Native American in my cabinet. Maybe even more”
And one en espanol:
James Kotecki points out that most of the presidential campaigns are violating copyright when they put clips of their interviews from cable and network shows up on YouTube — and he hopes that this forces them to reexamine copyright laws. He also likes that the networks are setting a precedent in not going after the campaigns’ useage. I’m not so sure it’s a violation but a defensible use of fair comment but I agree with James in any case.
Here’s a sampling of recent voter questions for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate.
Jack from Maryland says his family business works within the law to bring in seasonal guest workers every year. Since Congress has failed to enact the comprehensive immigration bill, he wants to know what the candidates will do to ensure that the guest worker program continues.
This young man asks Governor Romney to explain the difference between MittCare and HillaryCare.
The rising rate of obesity in the US concerns the very trim Ron from NYC. He asks the candidates what the President can do to change the American diet and lifestyle and “defeat obesity.”
A young Sikh American is worried that Iraq will become a haven for terrorists and asks the candidates about their longterm strategy to prevent that from occurring.
Standing in front of a dilapidated building in New Orleans, Daniel wants to hear from the candidates about how the federal government can help restore his city.
The Republican CNN/YouTube debate has been rescheduled for November 28 and questions from voters continue to roll in.
You see a lot of gay marriage questions and you see a lot of immigration questions, but you don’t see too many same-sex immigration questions. Especially from a cat.
Abha is an Indian-born American citizen from Wisconsin who asks the candidates “Do you believe it’s okay to impose Christian values on religious minorities through the policies you create?”
Ben says his ancestors came to America from Norway looking for a better life, but today Norway and many European countries have a higher standard of living than we do. How come?
James Kotecki has a message for Mitt Romney about YouTube debate. I won’t ruin his punchline; just watch.
As noted previously, video gamers are taking a break from their joysticks and getting political. For the inside story, go to GamePolitics.com — “Where politics and Video Games collide.” The site, part of the Entertainment Consumers Association, does a nice job covering all things political and cultural related to video games. It’s edited by Dennis McCauley, longtime video game columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, who also writes a column for the video game site Joystiq.
GamePolitics has jumped on the grassroots gamer response to the CNN/YouTube Republican debate and is now running a contest to spur more video submissions. Here’s what the gamers are saying:
Austin from Oregon says let the video game industry to regulate itself just like the movie industry.
Parents need to be responsible, says Tim.
And this dude gets in character to ask the candidates if the government should censor digital media such as the Internet and video games.
The Republican YouTube debate is on and rescheduled for Nov. 28 in Florida and it appears that Romney is the only candidate with cold feet; he has not yet committed.
The conservative bloggers who nudged their candidates to face the people at Save the Debate.com are going one step beyond the last debate, recruiting video volunteers to go to Republican events and ask the people to ask the candidates questions, jumping over any digital divide.
Voters continue to submit questions for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate.
Joe says ATM machines spit out receipts, so why can’t electronic voting machines produce physical records.
Here’s an issue that all Americans, regardless of ideology, can rally around: Squirreljohnny from Missouri wants to know what the candidates will do to stop his small town from being “sucked dry” by the local cable company.
Lambchop asks the candidates about the treatment of lab animals. (Aren’t sock puppets creepy?)
