Women make up 54 percent of the population, 55 percent of registered voters and 60 percent of the electorate.

In all recent elections, women have outvoted men (in terms of both turnout rates and actual numbers) in every racial and ethnic group - African American, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, and white.

So, when CNN/YouTube/Google selected only 24% of the questions as female questions - they created a tremendous credibility and gender gap with the majority of the electorate.

Please read my recent blog entry -
Almost 9 Million More Women - YouTube Blew It?
at EverydayCitizen.com
for more thoughts on this subject.

My biggest issue is that I wish CNN had a better system for choosing which videos to use. I thought some of the questions were great, but there a few that just seemed too silly (the snowman, anyone?). I think CNN editors need to back away from the selection process, and find another way to pick questions (as long as it isn’t by “most viewed”).

I’m just disappointed they didn’t include the Cyborg thing.

ps. i would watch if the next set of questions come from cartoon characters. Ren&Stimpy, Homer Simpson, Space Ghost, Cartman, Etc. - that would be revolutionary!

Because, and lets be honest here, that’s about as likely as what ya’ll were expecting. Perhaps you only look at small portions of the internet, I don’t know. But I can assure you this. Youtube and the web are not the panacea you make them out to be.

Problem #2: a Media run by corporate sponsors too weak-kneed to do much more than spoonfeed pablum-level questions to candidates who represent vested interests.

Problem #3: An American public generally too ignorant or indifferent to care a whole lot about the entire political process anyway…likely more interested in seeing who the next lineup of IDOL candidates are, or finding out who Kiefer’s going to blow away in the next season of 24… Bread and CIRCUSES, folks…

Problem #4: Candidates primarily interested in politics instead of statesmanship, backed by assorted vested interests who are far less interested in the ISSUES and more interested in how the candidates of their choice will enhance their BOTTOM LINES in the coming term of office…and these are the people with some grip on REALITY… I no longer know if McCain is even on the same PLANET as the rest of us, anymore…

…and by the time anyone’s figured out a way to actually DO something, all the ultra-rich will have flown to Switzerland and a quarter the U.S. will be underwater…

Sorry…bit depressed today… and misplaced my rose-colored GLASSES…

I predicted in JJ’s announcement thread that this forum would produce nothing of substance. Politician’s main job when campaigning is to ensure they don’t turn anyone off. This leads to time-tested political pablum.

What I want to know: When will the MSM get past the medium, and to the message?

The only revolutionary thing here is that finally it is admitted that reporters cannot be counted on to talk with non-reporters. Officially.

Now if only we could get the local news networks to do similar…

Exclude only that which cannot be aired on cable and of course those that either made no sense, were unintelligible, or had technical issues.

Have every video assigned a number, and then a random number generator pick a question and then that question presented to the candidates. That would have been democratic (that and allow every candidate to respond).

CNN basically picked the questions they would have already picked, but stated by You Tubers instead. Big deal! Big letdown. you could see the sigh of relief on the candidate’s faces once they realized this was more of the same! This was a ratings stunt by CNN. How glib they are to think Americans don’t really value democracy and this process!