The YouTube Election: We Ask Candidates For President Questions From Yonder

As far as YouTube viewing, we here at the Yonder will take Faith the wonder dog over presidential politics.

Monday night, however, CNN and YouTube will co-sponsor a debate among the Democratic presidential candidates. The two media companies are collecting questions from voters through YouTube. CNN will sort through the offerings and then the candidates will answer a few dozen of these queries on July 23rd.

This is either the greatest thing since the Nixon/Kennedy debates or, as one academic put it, an event that is "superficial" and "overly hyped." The Yonder has no idea how this will turn out — whether this is a new dawn for democracy or a perversion of YouTube. (Did we mention Faith the wonder dog?) We have, however, collected questions for the candidates — questions gathered from Yonderites. We suggest you cast your question into the pot. It might not do any good, but it beats taking out your political frustrations on the dog.

In the meantime, here are our questions from Yonder. We’ll rotate them through the next couple of days, so keep coming back.