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Web vox populi approaches to gain the perspective of the common citizen always sound right on paper, but most of the popular systems (twitter, commenting, social bookmarking, etc.) seem so easy to spam or skew to extremes and misrepresent the common viewpoint. The Democrats showed how to effectively exploit that in the 2008 election, and now the Republicans are doing the same thing (with even more extreme viewpoints).

How do we find mechanisms that are both easy to access and more representative? Both parties are guilty of misuse, so I remain a bit of skeptic...

John McKinley on 11/12 at 01:33PM