PlaceAVote – Stop Giving Your Vote to a Politician

Things like this have been tried before, and I'm sure this wont be the last iteration, but I really don't think it's ever going to pick up. Most of the population is only marginally plugged into political news. I'm not trying to condescend the American voting public, mind you; there's tons of content and data to compete with politics.

Despite the fact that it is now possible for a more direct democracy to exist thanks to communications tech, I don't think we are likely to head that direction for the simple reason that putting someone in charge of voting for them allows most people to refocus their time and energy on other things.

It's kind of the same reason I'm skeptical of Democracy.com. I'm just not convinced most people are that interested in connecting with politics and politicians to that extant. They may be passionate about a few issues, and maybe they even vote in local elections (though not likely), but to connect day to day in the way Democracy.com thinks they will, or to be able to commit the time necessary to understand and vote on every bill that goes before Congress, I think, is unrealistic.