Because I didn’t get it right the first time, here’s a slightly shorter version of my question for the Democratic candidates participating in CNN’s July 23 debate.

See the older post for background. I agree with what Mel wrote that this isn’t a (little-d) democratic process, and that there’s a lot wrong with it.

It’s elitist because only a small percentage of the population has access to the necessary equipment to record a video. And the questions aren’t being determined by a popular vote of YouTube users/CNN viewers, but by the gatekeepers at CNN. Those are huge fundamental problems.

Still, faulty as it may be, it is (maybe) an opportunity to ask a presidential candidate a question I haven’t heard asked anywhere else. And it is more engagement with the little people than I’ve ever known a news company that size to do. Baby steps…