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Submitted by: Brendan2
Created: Aug 1, 2006, 6:32 pm

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A website that lists every politician in the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and Cabinet as well as Governors, Mayors and those running for any aforementioned office. The site will give detailed background information on each politician. The site will be aimed toward the same demographic as the daily show but will not make up information. Instead, it will list how each politician has voted on all of the major issues. The site will allow users to rate the politicians and possibly allow users to add content (under heavy moderation to prevent vandalism). In addition to giving background and voting information about politicians, the site will attempt to expose (and ridicule) politicians who have been caught going back on their word, lying or calling the internet ?a series of tubes?. The main purpose will be to inform potential voters in an entertaining and unbiased way. This site could be expanded to include other countries and their politicians.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Watching the Daily Show, hoping that there was at least one politician left with a soul and wanting to be able to compare and contrast (and laugh and cry) at some of our elected officials. I want to be more informed and I want to help others make informed choices (without shoving partisan BS down their throats). I also want to make fun of stupid politicians (which we have no short supply of).

Comments Posted

Jonas_Wakefield Posted: August 2, 2006, 2:56 pm

Attitude is key on this... factual with enough snark to make readers giggle a bit.
I like it, would love to tweak some creative on this idea.

weasel Posted: August 3, 2006, 5:36 pm

It would be difficult to maintain a profit this site but I'm going to give it a thumbs up just because I want it to exist. =)

One primary function I want - You enter your location (Canada / Florida / Artic) and you enter your opinions on hotbutton issues (Abortion / Gay Rights / Smelly Cows) and it will give you a list of who's on your side and who's against. A sort of, "vote for this person" recommendation chart.

Doymarn Posted: August 5, 2006, 2:07 pm

I would love to see this type of website exist too and not just for the U.S.A, we need this for the liars in power in the U.K too and elsewhere .. not sure about the financials but this project could demonstrate how we can use the Internet to effect positive change in the old guard of corrupt politics .. how better to demonstrate community spirited projects.

Maybe we could get one of the big arms manufacturers to sponsor it, LOL ;)

Good Luck:)

p.s. it would be interesting to review the qualifications of our politicians! .. a rough quote of a stage joke of Billy Connelly "Every aspiring politician should be made to sit an aptitude test and if they pass they should be banned from poilitcs forever" :) .. i liked it!

CyberCerberus Posted: August 5, 2006, 3:29 pm

I love the spirit of this idea, and I believe it would be valuable, but I fear it would fairly quickly degenerate into a partisan vehicle without some sort of party-line moderator identification.

AndyDoan Posted: August 5, 2006, 3:50 pm

Wikipedia is entering this field, but I'm afraid they will descend into a ultra liberal love-in, within the first 15 minutes.

Ad companies might stay away from a platform with the potential of making powerful men look stupid.

There does need to be a service like this on the web.

ruben Posted: August 9, 2006, 5:03 am

Sounds like a great idea - I'm in the UK and there's nothing that even comes close to allowing the general public to see how their politicians are voting on key issues as well as what their background is (as opposed to what they want people to *think* their background is) and details of anything they've done in the past that they're less than honest about :)

Rizal Posted: May 4, 2007, 8:00 am

this would be good for upcoming election. as all the politicians are going in to web 2.0 game. check out obama and hillary clinton having their own web 2.0 sites

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