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Ari Melber: Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team's call for citizen queries to the President-Elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S. government. I've been working with activist Bob Fertik to organize support for the question, and several progressive bloggers urged readers and Obama supporters to vote ...

Change.gov against Obama
Crooked Timber — ... to organize against him (as they did within MyBarackObama.com when Obama announced his support for controversial wiretapping legislation). By rebuilding the Democratic Party around a model that is friendlier to decentralized online participation, Obama is both making it easier for Democratic activists to organize in protest against overly “moderate” decisions But I didn’t expect it to start happening quite so soon. Ari Melber in The Nation. A whopping 70,000 questions ...

Daily Digest: Change.gov Serves Up Hardball for Obama
techPresident — ... has attracted just under 23,000 votes, putting it at the top of the 75,600 questions currently on the site. (Here's a tip: To reveal the number of votes in favor of a OFQ question, mouse over the the bar graph underneath it.) The only other entry on Change.gov with anywhere near that level of support is one on holding banks accountable for the money spent during the federal bailout. The question in third place, regarding public transit, has attracted just 6,000 or so votes. "We expect a 'yes,' 'no,' or detailed explanation of how and when Obama and his aides will make this ...