I was thinking that maybe Y!A should also have an area where the candidates can be *asked* questions - by the public. Not sure how this would work in terms of moderation (it would certainly need it) but I'd personally like to see the candidates answers questions that are of direct significance to us. Perhaps there could be a section wherein people can submit questions, you could vote on them and the top 10 questions voted in each week are posted to the question forum for answers.
Candidates (and their campaigns), of course, could opt not to answer any particular question but a general indifference to the format might be picked up on by the community here.
I'd think Y!A would go for it, too, since it would probably be a good selling point for the site to draw in people that otherwise would not join/create a profile.
Somewhat akin to the YouTube debate held a while ag
2007-10-03 04:28:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
That would be great. Let people vote for best question, and the candidates would have to pick one of the favorites. It would be easy for them, especially since, as you point out, their campaign workers could write the answers. The answers would still reflect the candidate's views since the candidates would likely have the final approval over the answers before they were posted.
2007-10-03 04:41:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The spirit of the idea is good, but the candidates would give canned answers. Also, there would be tons of hate speech, biased responses, and an overwhelming amount of violations. I think that the best bet for real answers are in live debates. Event hen, there are canned responses, but you have a better chance of forcing a candidate to get real.
2007-10-03 11:54:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
an excellent idea. star.
however, i am afraid that politicians are too comfy answering canned questions from approved sources to ever go for it.
there is too much attention to image, etc., for their PR managers to ever allow the candidates to be caught off guard or respond off the cuff. its too dangerous politically anymore.
2007-10-03 11:36:52 · answer #3 · answered by Free Radical 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You'd only get right-wing
left-wing
centrist
views blogged all over with their mostly
inaccurate,
biased,
misleading
opinions...
2007-10-03 11:33:37 · answer #4 · answered by graciouswolfe 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can not happen, politicians are afraid of the general public!~!
2007-10-03 11:35:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
So we can get a bunch of 'canned' answers? No, I don't think so.
2007-10-03 11:31:32 · answer #6 · answered by Still Beautifully Conservative 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋