I'm still waiting for them to say something interesting.  I'm watching
some candidates.  I won't commit to sending them my social security
number and birth date until I have evidence that they're credible.

FYI, I enjoy this website re: americans elect:

http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/category/americanselect/


Steve Smith wrote at 03/14/2012 03:08 PM:
> 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
>>
>> ****************************
>> 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<[email protected]>  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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