Yearly Kos Format Should be Local Cause

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I completely understand my blogger friends at the Yearly Kos convention in Chicago setting the stage for a sharp and long overdue exchange between candidates over corporate ties and lobbyist donations to government officials. But I digress, the candidates to corner and question at this stage in the presidential campaign process are the Republicans.

Daily Kos Excerpt:
"When they've come to so dominate the debate that ordinary citizens' interests and viewpoints and concerns are drowned out then I think we've got a problem," Obama said. "This campaign is going to come down to whether you believe that it's enough just to get somebody other than George Bush in the White House to fix what ails Washington, or do you think we need to set a fundamentally new course."

And I can see this format taking off in the local scene in the near future. Can you imagine having city council, state assembly, or town hall debates blog-based and controlled by regular citizens and not by the local newspapers, quasi-apolitical group, or chamber of commerce? With the advent of WiFi, this may be coming sooner than we think.
Because of blogs, regular folk can now express their own opinions and questions without worrying about vanity or intimidation. Where local candidates will no longer be able to hide their true motivations and principles inside cookie-cutter answers to choreographed questions. Real people can ask real questions. The future is now.