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Lesson in failure #837323b

Submitted by NoMoreBlatherDotCom on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 14:53
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The second round of Obama soliciting questions from the citizens started last week, but his opponents aren't taking advantage of it. A quick review of the most voted-for questions at change.gov/openforquestions shows that most or all of those are coming from his supporters. Some of them might have minor disagreements with him, but most of the questions are incredibly weak, and some seem like they're complete set-ups. Obama isn't going to have any problems answering or shining on the "top" questions. (That's a known flaw of the voting system they're using, and they were most assuredly aware of that flaw.)

Meanwhile, I'm not aware of a campaign by any of his opponents aside from me to think up and then vote up real questions. I submitted five tough questions for Obama but I don't have the reach that MoveOn and Norml have. And, when I posted about it here it got 459 views and three completely counter-productive replies. And, the number of views hasn't translated into votes: my question with the most votes is 83 up/73 down.

Let me suggest someone else starting a campaign to push voting for my questions. If you don't like my questions, then come up with ones you think are better and push those.

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Submitted by Warner Todd Huston on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 21:26.

You really don't ever expect to see anything that really challenges Obama there, do you?

That's not the way to do things

Submitted by NoMoreBlatherDotCom on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 23:48.

Let me try to be as constructive as possible.

1. I see at least five questions there that do in fact challenge Obama. Those are the ones from me, and a few of them have dozens of up and down votes, all from other people. That means that those questions are in the rotation, unless they're playing a game.

2. I just looked through the top immigration entries, and they were all a) very very bad, and b) from Obama's side. Some only had a few hundred votes, so it wouldn't be that difficult for those who have the reach to get something near the top for that term.

3. If those who had the reach were able to get a question near the top and it was deleted, or it "won" and Obama didn't answer it, or the voting seemed to "stall out" and it was suspected that they were playing games with the votes, then that would be a greater story than if Obama had simply answered the question.