[IMC-pgh-editorial] Feature proposal: electoral roundup

[Quinten Steenhuis]

I think 4+ months ago is long enough to no longer be recent, but matt 
still makes a good point. Do people have ideas for articles that should be 
linked in? I made a skeleton feature for people who have admin logins, but 
please suggest stories.

I started to propose a feature just about the POG post/pre election day 
events, but I realized that there was plenty of electoral news on the 
newswire that should get featured. A lot of it gets covered in the 
mainstream press enough that it's understandable we don't feature every 
story that comes along, but it's still a gap in our coverage, with the 
elections just a little more than a month away.

I'd specifically like to include stories that discuss the utility of 
voting, stories about third party candidates, and stories about whether 
progressives should or should not vote for bush. In the last four months 
we've had dozens of stories on these topics that are still relevant. Here 
are some just going back to the last 1-2 months.

Here are a few links:
POG actions:
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15600.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15599.php

Utility of voting / Don't just vote:
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15588.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15598.php

Third-party candidates:
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15609.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/15045.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15319.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15251.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15213.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15523.php

Kerry and Progressives:
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15607.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15602.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15594.php
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/15461.php

Quinten

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 mtoups at indymedia.org wrote:

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> we've had one "voting issues" feature recently:
> http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=128&category_id=4
>
> we could certainly use another one, but I would like to
> see a real proposal before we can say that consensus has
> been reached.  can people actually say spefically what is
> going to be in this proposed feature?  i don't think it
> is fair to call this a feature proposal at this point.
>
> if you're interested in this subject, please say more
> than "yes" (kind of ironic, in the context of a discussion
> on "don't just vote", that people are "just voting" for
> an electoral roundup!)
>
> - -matt
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Quinten Steenhuis wrote:
>
>> 
>> There have been lots of stories on our newswire about electoral issues. I 
>> propose we put up a few representing different views on elections -- the 
>> "don't just vote" vs "progressives must vote for kerry" vs "don't vote at 
>> all," summarize the different actions that will be taking place around the 
>> elections, and summarize some of the recent news about third party 
>> candidates.
>> 
>> Quinten
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