What is everyone (else's) current take on the Americans Elect at this
point? I just took the time to (re)sign up and go through about 100
questions and then looked at the draft candidates and at the "questions"
being put forth for debate by the candidates somewhere down the line.
Overall I was much more impressed with the situation than I was in the
past.
The debate "questions" being put forward were hampered in quality by
the source... "the unwashed masses" are going to come up with a lot of
whackadoodle things, or if not whackadoodle ideas, whackadoodle
expressions of perfectly good ideas. I tried "voting" on about 100 of
the questions (some of the most popular, but mostly the "most recent".
It wasn't clear I was helping... I'm hoping the questions get rendered
down more (but also well) as many questions were variations on each other.
I wouldn't worry about their bad questions or money requests. Just
ignore those until they are fixed and vote in the primary :P
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Greg Sonnenfeld
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be
sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:17 PM, glen<g...@ropella.name> wrote:
Steve Smith wrote circa 12-01-09 01:51 PM:
Isn't this what Americans Elect (among other things) trying to
address? After the initial flurry of discussion about this group, I've
seen nothing else here.
I was disturbed by certain things about them but as an alternative
mechanism, maybe they are worth more attention?
I still get e-mails from them asking for money. I've answered 223 of
their stupidly dichotomous questions and voted on 20 of them. I've seen
nothing from them but solicitations for money. I won't give them any
money. I have way too many established charities knocking.
At this point, I'm inclined to write them off.
--
glen
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