Brendan Nyhan

Change.gov open for (favorable) questions

The only thing dumber than opening a website for the public to submit and vote on questions to Barack Obama (which will either provide a platform for anti-Obama content or require suppression of it) is to do so in the midst of a scandal that people are trying to link to Obama. And — sure enough! — Politico is already covering
the way visitors to the site are flagging questions about Blagojevich as inappropriate.