Help Choose the First Voice of the Day!

Welcome to the first Voice of the Day poll for allvoices. We want to know whose article should be today’s winner. If you are looking for great content on last night’s debate, this is the place for you. By the way, I am guessing that most days we won’t have as much national election news as we did today. In order for that to happen, some of you are going to have to head over to the site and report on local issues and elections.

That said, there was no way I could pick between today’s entries for the voice of the day. Since WordPress just announced a polling addition to the blogging engine, I am going to use this blog piece to have you help me decide who is today’s voice of the day.

 

 

There were 7 stories submitted today that met the criteria of original, thought provoking, interesting pieces on election issues. Each of these stories is eligible for today’s t-shirt.

I have purposefully removed the author’s names from the list of articles. If you want to vote on an article based on who wrote it, you will need to check each article out individually. (Which I hope you do anyway!) To help choose the winner, read the articles and then vote in the poll below.

 

Did McCain have a ‘Dukakis Moment’ on stage after 3rd debate?

Hempstead :: NY :: USA | Oct 16, 2:28 PM | Political News

Much has been made of Sen. John McCain’s body language on stage during all three presidential debates, but as this framegrab taken immediately after the final debate Oct. 15 Hempstead, N.Y., shows, McCain finally outdid himself. And he may have…

Obama fends off McCain’s spirited onslaught

Hempstead :: NY :: USA | Oct 16, 6:19 AM | Political News

After the third US presidential debate held at Hofstra University on October 15, the Democrats are heaving a sigh of relief that Senator John McCain did not score the knockout punch he needed in order to wipe out his rival…

28 Million Hate DVD Distributed in Key Swing States! (Video)

Denver :: CO :: USA | Oct 16, 5:52 AM | Political News

A DVD that plays on American’s fear that Obama is a “closet” Muslim has been distributed with 70 newsapers to millions in the key swing states of Ohio, Florida, and Colorado. Entitled “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West”, the…

Ohio Plumber Drain’s McCain’s Pipe Dream for President 

Columbus :: OH :: USA | Oct 16, 1:26 AM | Political News

Case of Ohio Tradesman Unclogs Issues on Small Business Help, Taxes and Health Care OhioNewsBureau with John Michael Spinelli Columbus, Ohio: When the curtain came down on the third and final presidential debate of 2008, any pipe dreams Arizona Sen….

McCain throws baseball signals, Obama stays the course, voters remain … 

New York City :: NY :: USA | Oct 15, 9:53 PM | Political News

What was significant about the last presidential debate between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain? Finally, a debate that got to the heart of many issues people needed and said they wanted to hear about, but the results from Independent…

Put your punditry where the money is – Predictify’s $100,000 Election …

Berkeley :: CA :: USA | Oct 15, 7:28 PM | Political News

So you think you know electoral politics, eh? Then you might want to enter the Predicty/Rock the Vote $100,000 Election Showdown. Punditty did, and he’s pretty sure he’s going to finish in the money. Then again, he was pretty sure…

Blogger Railroaded for Exposing Sarah Palin’s Maternal Negligence 

New York City :: NY :: USA | Oct 15, 4:15 PM | Political News

According to The Hill , Susan Bruce , a campaign blogger for New Hampshire Representative Carol Shea-Porter, was recently forced to resign after she raised the legitimate concern about Sarah Palin’s abysmal public treatment of her children, including her down…

 

By the way – You may have noticed that most of those are expressing the same view. That isn’t the goal here. We want a diverse set of views. If you haven’t been posting because you are afraid we are biased toward one end of the spectrum or the other, please start expressing your views. allvoices is the place for you to express your views. We want to know what you think and what is important to you. Maybe all of tomorrow’s suggestions will be McCain backers….

What a day!

Wow! What a day yesterday was! I spent the day at San Francisco State University meeting students from the Journalism department at a job and internship fair put together by the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism. I met many interesting students… More on that in a moment…

But first…

Incentive Program News!

While I was busy doing the meet and greet thing, two of our top site contributors were busy getting views!

MarcusCato and Roxanne Weber both went over the 100,000 views line in the last day! Roxanne Weber you already know from Meet the community: OnlineBusinessWoman. MarcusCatoyou will be meeting in our next community bio coming in the next day or so. Both are great writers who put together pieces full of good information, pictures, cartoons, and conversation starters. If you aren’t following thier news on allvoices, you should be!

Check them out!

Flip News!

In addition to meeting students and having 2 people go over the 100,000 views mark, we also had another person earn a Flip for referals: paulvalach. Paul is from Avondale, AZ (that’s near Phoenix). He has a couple of good pieces out there – watch for more from him soon. We have a few more users very close to the 20 persons refered level – If you want a Flip from allvoices, you are going to need to get those referals going!

Back to yesterday…

While at the job/internship fair yesterday, I met many interesting students. Some are writers, some are photographers, some do both. Watch for thier news coming soon.

I put the names of the students who stopped to talk to me and registered for the site into a hat. The winner gets a Flip from allvoices so that they can report news on the site. And that winner is…. amanda_elliot

amanda_elliot look for a private message and an email from me soon. The rest of you… Join me in welcoming amanda_elliot to the community and encouraging her to write!

The rest of the world…

While I was heading home from San Francisco last night, this little event called the Presidental Debate happened here in the US. Since I was traveling, I couldn’t see the debate. I will watch it on YouTube, but until I get that chance, I have a challenge for all of you:
Post your take on the debate on the site. Get things going. Let the world know what you think. And if you do, let me know. Who knows, I might even mention your story in one of my blog posts!