News Americans Elect - the first internet Presidential ticket?

[Ivan Seeking]

I have no opinion on this yet but it sounds interesting.

What is Americans Elect?

Americans Elect is the first-ever open nominating process. We're using the Internet to give every single voter—Democrat, Republican or independent—the power to nominate a presidential ticket in 2012. The people will choose the issues. The people will choose the candidates. And in a secure, online convention next June, the people will make history by putting their choice on the ballot in every state...

http://www.americanselect.org/about

 

[Pengwuino]

Finally,

Cemore Asses will finally get elected!

 

[WhoWee]

Evo - 2012!

 

[NeoDevin]

Nobody who has ever spent any time reading youtube comments can possibly think this will turn out well.

 

[Char. Limit]

Evo - 2012!

Damn right!

Nobody who has ever spent any time reading youtube comments can possibly think this will turn out well.

Damn right!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Nobody who has ever spent any time reading youtube comments can possibly think this will turn out well.

And we can see how much the bar is raised at PF.

 

[Proton Soup]

http://www.americanselect.org/privacy


what could possibly be wrong with this? it'll be interesting to see who they really are and who they're collecting information for.

 

[Pengwuino]

And we can see how much the bar is raised at PF.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/youtube.com#

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/physicsforums.com

Talk about the little guy being shouted down...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Talk about the little guy being shouted down...

I was being sarcastic; based in part on the responses in this thread so far.

 

[WhoWee]

I was being sarcastic; based in part on the responses in this thread so far.

One can only imagine how many votes Charlie Sheen, Louis Farrakhan, Charles Manson, Clint Eastwood, Bill Maher, Steven Colbert, Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Jon Stewart, Turbo, Sean Penn, Miley Cyrus, Jay Williams (a real politician) and others might receive.

 

[WhoWee]

On a serious note - my guess is younger voters will be more likely to engage in this type activity - to coin a phrase "flashmob politics". If they find a hero in Howard Dean or some other far left personality and put forth a serious write-in effort - it could hurt the President. Okay - not too serious.

 

[BobG]

On a serious note - my guess is younger voters will be more likely to engage in this type activity - to coin a phrase "flashmob politics". If they find a hero in Howard Dean or some other far left personality and put forth a serious write-in effort - it could hurt the President. Okay - not too serious.

Well, if you go through the questions and look at the percentages each response gets, it's clear they'll wind up with a liberal candidate. However, some candidates are more popular on the internet than in real life (Ron Paul for example), so I have my doubts about whether their candidate would actually hurt the President's re-election efforts.

 

[Jack21222]

I think they're underestimating the difficulty of getting on the ballot in all 50 states. Even well-organized, yet small, political parties such as the Libertarians and the Greens struggle with that.

 

[Ryumast3r]

It's difficult, but worst case scenario they just tell you (if you're in a state that they couldn't) to turn yours into a write-in vote via e-mail, text, phone call, etc.

Of course, reminders like that don't always work.. but it is doable.