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Help Choose Final Bush/Kerry/Nader Youth Voter Questions

Posted by Roblimo on from the how-hard-will-they-duck-the-hard-ones? dept.

Quite a few of the submitted questions were generated by Slashdot readers, and your moderations and comments helped select the 25 semi-finalists. There's only one step remaining in the process: Voting on the the final 12 questions that will be submitted to the candidates, which must be done on the New Voters Project Presidential Youth Debate site by noon Eastern Time on October 5. Note that Slashdot readers are the only members of the moderation panel providing "...nominations from an entire community." We'll post the answers from Bush, Kerry, and Nader (who was added after the process began) on October 12.

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  1. Kind of ironic.... by isotope23 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that the choices are only bush/kerry/nader

    when even the /. poll shows badnarik at 5% and nader at only 1%

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    1. Re:Kind of ironic.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There isn't anything stopping other parties from answering the questions as well. Hopefully at least Slashdot will link to them even if they don't appear on the new voters project website.

  2. Affordable healthcare by wayward_son · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is becoming increasingly difficult for working Americans to afford quality health care. Costs for health care and health care coverage are spiraling beyond the reach of many in this country. This is having an adverse effect on both the nations health as well as the nation's economy. (For example, the leading cause of personal bankruptcy is people not able to pay their doctor bills.)

    If elected President, what would you do to make quality healthcare affordable to all Americans?

  3. The Second Coming by Anonymous+Cowdog · · Score: 4, Interesting

    James Watt, President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, was quoted in the Washington Post in 1981 as saying "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."

    Please tell the young voters what your beliefs regarding the Second Coming are, and how those beliefs influence your choices on long-term policy matters such as energy, the environment, and foreign relations.

    1. Re:The Second Coming by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There's a story that a freak meteorological event three centuries ago covered parts of New England with uncanny darkness. The story goes that most people stayed home and prayed because they thought it was the end of the world. But one man hitched up with oxen and went to plow his fields.

      When asked later why he went about his work, he replied, "Well if figured it was one of two things. If the Good Lord wasn't coming back then I didn't want to waste my time. But if the Good Lord was coming back, then I wanted Him to find me industrious instead of idle."

      Believing in the second coming shouldn't have any effect on one's behavior towards the environment. A really good answer to your question would be, "If the Good Lord is coming back tomorrow, I want Him to find me to be a faithful steward of the Earth..."

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  4. Only 12 questions? by bretharder · · Score: 4, Funny

    These people are running for the highest office in the United States;
    Yet they only have to submit to 12 questions?

    Jesus! A McDonalds application has more than 12 questions!