If you’d like to ask a question of candidates running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, or for the 8th and 11th District congressional seats, the website 10questions.com offers you that opportunity.
From an e-mail authored by Nick Judd at PersonalDemocracy.com:
On 10Questions.com, anyone can use YouTube ? our technology partner ? to submit and vote on questions for candidates in 11 states. Based on their votes, the top 10 questions in each race will be posed to candidates, who will respond on video. With another round of voting, your readers can then rate whether or not each candidate answered the questions, rewarding substantive answers over adherence to talking points or rhetoric.
We built 10Questions on the premise that everyday voters are the people who should drive the agenda in an election year, and that the technology now exists to make that happen. (By the way, we also did it as a public service, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.) Some of the highest-profile candidates in the country, from gubernatorial candidates like California’s Meg Whitman and Pennsylvania’s Tom Corbett, to U.S. Senate candidates like California’s Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina, and Ohio’s Lee Fisher, have committed to answering the top questions in their race.
Your readers’ questions will be answered. All they have to do is ask. …
The candidates are listening. But time is running out; there are only 20 days left to submit and vote on what will be the top 10 questions in each race.
This is an opportunity to get involved in an ambitious, nationwide effort to put control of the electoral agenda in the hands of American voters, who will decide together what the most important issues are in each race and hold candidates accountable for addressing those issues.
