Think the Iowa Caucus is the first presidential contest in the nation? Think again. Friend of Why Tuesday? MySpace Impact (check out our MySpace page) is holding an online presidential primary before a single vote is cast in either Iowa or New Hampsire… and you can participate! Here are the details direct from MySpace:

Beginning on Tuesday, January 1 at 3:01 am EST, MySpace will invite its community to participate in the first MySpace Presidential Primary on the Impact Channel. Taking place just prior to the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primaries, the largest online community will be the first to choose their candidate for the nation’s highest office. Polls will close Wednesday, January 2 at 11:59 pm EST.

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JOHNSTON, IOWA — We’re back in the press filing center for the Democratic debate here later today. Getting all set up to meet Rose and Pearl, the two beautiful horses that got us to the debate site here yesterday by a 19th century-like buggy. Why? Here’s the answer. Stay tuned for updates from here all day. Videos to follow in the days ahead.

In the meantime check out this cool look at the unusually high voter participation in the state to our north - Minnesota - produced by friend of Why Tuesday? MTV News.

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Busy tomorrow eve? Hope not. Why? Read an important message from friend of Why Tuesday? Myles Weissleder, of the innovative National Presidential Caucus, after the jump. (more…)

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Why Tuesday? is proud to be a co-sponsor of The Polling Project, an exciting initiative from the Huffington Post’s OffTheBus that will take an in-depth look at how campaigns shape their messages.

We’re joining an unbelievable team of journalists and bloggers that have signed up to help unravel the mystery behind polls: What questions are asked? How do they choose who to call? And of course, how do they come to their conclusions?

This is a collaborative project, and we need your help!

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Voting is closed at 10Questions.com and our question about election reform finished at #9. With 1850 net votes, we hung in there despite a strong last-minute surge of other questions from below! Thanks everyone for your votes and support.

10Questions, which received over 120,000 total votes, is “taking a few days to make sure everything’s in order.” So stay tuned here for updates about when we can expect to see candidate responses. In the meantime, watch our 10Questions entry, and check out the 12 responses we’ve already received to our own Why Tuesday? Candidate Challenge.

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“10Questions” for the candidates

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This week’s edition of Newsweek will feature Anna Quindlen’s article about public financing in Arizona’s elections. Although clean elections may not be the final answer, Quindlen reports, offering a voluntary system of public funding “does much of what it is supposed to do: gives ordinary people a sense of ownership, eliminates the automatic advantages of incumbency and opens the door to a broader field.”

John Rauh, founder of Americans for Campaign Reform and friend of Why Tuesday?, agrees that offering an alternative to privately funded campaigns is of ultimate importance. Candidates who choose public funding need to feel that they can compete, after all, Rauh says, “You cannot buy an election. You can only lose it if you don’t have enough to make an impact.”

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LAist is one of my favorite blogs from my hometown, Los Angeles. I talked with my friend (and friend of WT?) Sloane Berrent about our efforts and how people in Southern California… or anywhere for that matter… can get involved. She just posted the interview a short time ago. Check it out.

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Our friends at TechPresident are producing a totally sweet initiative called 10Questions in cooperation with the New York Times Editorial Board and in association with MSNBC. It’s like the CNN/YouTube debate, only the users pick the questions that will be posed to the 2008 presidential candidates. You can add a question of your own to the mix by uploading it to one of several sites and tagging it “10Questions.” But you should also give a thumbs up to our question. I ask the candidates, in essence, to respond to the Why Tuesday? Candidate Challenge.

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Greetings from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism where Barnett and I are attending Jeff Jarvis’ Networked Journalism Summit. Many friends of WT? are also attending, including the peeps from PDF/techPresident, Rocketboom, and OffTheBus. Also, our Twitter friends Ryan Sholin, Anil Dash and Dave Winer are here. I haven’t seen them yet but have seen them Twittering! Where are you guys?!

Jay Rosen of NYU, second from right in the photo, gave some great remarks about what he learned from the Assignment Zero project, which Barnett and I found to be very applicable to what we’re doing here. Jay has also posted those lessons on his blog, so check them out.

netj: Read more posts about the summit at Technorati

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