{"id":5215,"date":"2007-10-28T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T20:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2007-10-29T22:17:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T05:17:41","slug":"whats-obamas-plans-for-election-reform-lets-help-see-the-question-get-asked-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5215","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What Are Obama&#8217;s Plans for Election Reform?&#8217; Let&#8217;s Help See the Question Get Asked Tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Jacob Soboroff, from the election reform site <a href=\"http:\/\/WhyTuesday.org\">Why Tuesday<\/a>, is asking folks to vote up his video question for Barack Obama, so that the question might be one of 10 asked of the presidential candidate during an MTV appearance scheduled for Monday (10\/29) at 1:30pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>To help ensure Obama gets asked the direct question on Election Reform, please <strong>click the green &#8220;thumbs up&#8221; icon<\/strong> just above Jacob&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10questions.com\/?search=QJHLdxD3lwU\">short video question here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be nice if the media began asking the candidates such questions about the one issue that underscores all others: What the hell do they plan to do about our crumbling electoral system?<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, we&#8217;d love them to answer one question directly &#8212; and hope that those of you out there attending their live events might bring a video camera and ask them directly!: <strong>&#8220;Do you support a paper ballot &#8212; not a &#8216;paper trail&#8217; or a &#8216;paper record,&#8217; but a paper <em>ballot<\/em>, and one that is actually <em>counted<\/em> &#8212; for every vote cast in America?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But in the meantime, the question to Obama on MTV would be a step in the right direction. Please take 40 seconds to click the video link above and then click that green thumbs up button!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Jacob Soboroff, from the election reform site Why Tuesday, is asking folks to vote up his video question for Barack Obama, so that the question might be one of 10 asked of the presidential candidate during an MTV appearance scheduled for Monday (10\/29) at 1:30pm ET. To help ensure Obama gets asked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,122,28],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-election-2008","category-election-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}