Friday, August 31st, 2007
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Welcome to our new website! September 25 Why Tuesday? is going to launch a documentary video series about the state of America’s voting system. While we work out the kinks, learn more by watching the video and signing up at the top of the page to stay involved! |
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Just posted this to YouTube. It’s a new video with some lite election reform news, a preview of the new Why Tuesday? site, and request for participation from YT’ers.
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Our behind the scenes look at the CNN/YouTube debate is featured right now on YouTube News & Politics editor Steve Grove’s Citizentube blog, and as an editor’s pick. In the video I talk with Mike Gravel about what he calls his plan for a “national initiative” which he thinks will get people more involved in voting. Wonkette had some fun with that idea yesterday.
In this crazy system, legislation would be put to a national popular vote, allowing the rubes and nuts of America to make their own laws willy-nilly.
Wonkette links to this Mother Jones article about the initiative idea.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Even though our question didn’t make it into the first CNN/YouTube debate, the video got some nice buzz from Computerworld and PC World magazines. They named our question one of the Funniest YouTube Questions for Candidates.
… as CNN culls through the videos to choose questions for its July 23 debate, it’s also finding that some questioners are using humor — in many cases, quite well — to get their points across.
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10. #584
Jacob Soboroff asks: “Why do we vote on Tuesdays?”
The fact that the majority of the politicians we asked didn’t know why we vote on Tuesday is funny, but also a bummer, given that if they had any idea, they’d know how old and outdated the reason we vote on Tuesday is. That’s one of many problems with our broken election system that we’ll be exploring in the months ahead.
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
YouTube is asking users to submit videos critiquing candidate performances during last week’s debate in South Carolina. Some users are also critiquing the debate itself.
We submitted a response, too. It was filmed on location at the debate with CNN SVP David Bohrman, whose team selected the questions for the debate, and YouTube user MelissaJenna, who posed the only question about election reform used during the debate.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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Here it is. Hot off the press. In the video: CNN’s Anderson Cooper and John King, Mike Gravel, Elizabeth Edwards, Obama advisor David Axelrod, Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean and Chris Dodd. (more…) |
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