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August 15, 2007

Give Your Two Cents to Unity08

Unity08 is a political reform movement looking to regain the voice of real people in American politics. The group has launched a unique online study that allows you to rank the presidential candidates and the issues facing the country. They are trying to include as many American citizens as they can so that they can get a clearer idea of what issues are most critical to Americans. Part of their effort will also be to go through a nominating process just like political parties and select a candidate as the Unity08 candidate, who will appear as such on your November ballot. I'm not so crazy about that idea because I don't think it really addresses the problems we're having with our elections process, but I did take the survey (it's lengthy, but interesting). If you have half an hour to give to this effort, you can take their survey here and tell them which candidates you prefer, why, which issues matter to you, and how much they matter to you. It's kind of a cool sliding scale, as opposed to rating things on a scale of 1 to 5.

After you take the survey, come back here and let's talk about what's wrong with the way we select a President and how we might fix it.

Posted by Becky at August 15, 2007 02:03 PM