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Iowa Makes it Official: The iCandidate Political Reality Show Could be the Alternative for Presidential Election Voters
The iCandidate is being serialized now only on NoteStream
If the result in Iowa taught us one thing it was this; the voters are looking for something different.
The state’s Republicans didn’t give a stuff that just about everybody who has ever had anything to do with Ted Cruz in politics despises him. Frank Bruni, of the New York Times, quoted a staffer who worked with the Texas Senator on the 2000 Bush campaign as saying: “Why do people take such an instant dislike to Ted Cruz? It just saves time.”
So what if Cruz is like kryptonite to the GOP leadership and pretty much everyone on Capitol Hill. It clearly worked in his favor that he was apart from the establishment. With all his posturing, Donald Trump could be controlled. He knows all about the art of the deal and he would have fallen into line – and may yet do so – if he really does get a sniff of the nomination proper and not just in the notebooks of the pollsters. The leadership isn’t so sure about Cruz and therein lies his appeal.
Similarly, Bernie Sanders came within a whisker of defeating Hillary Clinton in a youth-led drive anti-Washington Democrat vote.
He missed winning by a statistical sliver and how he loved sticking one to the Clintons. But it wasn’t so much a vote against Hillary but for the hope of something different. Something better.
“It is just too late for establishment politics and establishment economics,” Sanders said following the count. “We do not represent the interests of the billionaire class, Wall Street, or corporate America. We don’t want their money.”
But it is very likely the establishment and the big money will yet feature decisively in this race. I wouldn’t bet a dime on either Cruz or Sanders because the two-party system will do everything in its power to crush them in favor of more compliant status quo nominees.
All of which brings me around to the alternative.
Up until now, all the challengers to the system like Ross Perot, Ralph Nader and Ron Paul have done is to split the vote and corrupt the eventual result.
The iCandidate would replace the two-party presidential election system altogether.
Many of you will already be aware that eight finalists are vying against each other in the The iCandidate political reality show that debuted on the NoteStream app on February 1.
It will be serialized each week, culminating on the day of the final presidential poll on November 8.
The carefully selected nominees – none with any formal party affiliation – will battle it out through a series of surprise challenges designed to test their mettle, their courage, their intelligence, their integrity and their credibility.
By the end of the contest, you will know these people better than your neighbors and you will vote each step of the way to decide who goes back into oblivion and who stays the course right through to the winner’s podium.
At the end of each challenge there will be an iVote on NoteStream. All you need to do is join the Book Club to join the ballot. We’re not talking Super Pac here. It costs 99 cents a year!
Right now, it is the primaries and caucuses that matter. But everybody outside the Republican and Democrat power base knows this can’t go on much longer. This is 2016; there are such things as computers and apps and the means to absolutely stamp out corrupt ballots. Nobody uses paper anymore.
The iCandidate is a vehicle to give the people what they want. It’s not just a reality show; it will soon be reality, mark my words.
As we have seen in Iowa and I predict we will see in New Hampshire, the American public wants real change, real hope. Not just words, but action.
The only way they will get it is by scrapping the current presidential voting system and replacing it with a high-tech, fully transparent process that will give us the President of the United States that we deserve and not one we have to settle for.
To find out how it can be done, read The iCandidate.
Let’s change the world, one iVote at a time.
David Mason
Communications Director
The iCandidate
@icandidate_mase
Changing America One iVote at a Time
So who thought we would get an endorsement from the President of the United States?
I guess he’s not too worried; his tenancy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is almost up. Eight years is a pretty short lease but I’m guessing from all those gray hairs that he’ll be quite happy to take Michelle and the girls back to Chicago so he can really start piling up his post-presidential fortune.
Mr. Obama may not have mentioned us directly in his final State of the Union speech, but, let’s just put it right out there, who else could he have been talking about?
“We’ve got to make it easier to vote, not harder. We need to modernize it for the way we live now.”
Couldn’t have put it better myself. Perhaps now people will start taking The iCandidate more seriously.
Today, February 1, marks the first day of voting in the quest to select the presidential nominees for the Democrat and Republican parties, the only two viable contestants in a two-horse race to the White House.
Let me just suggest two scenarios and you can decide which one makes the most sense.
Voters in Iowa will saunter down to schools, churches, libraries and, in some cases, peoples’ houses, in 1,682 precincts across the state and in the case of the GOP, enter a straw poll usually decided by a show of hands or scraps of paper. Democrats will stand in little groups and get 30 minutes to try and persuade others to join them before the head count begins.
Or…
Nominees are set a realistic task mirroring one they may face as president involving some of the big questions of the day – terrorism, poverty, the economy – and voters watching on TV or online will then vote from the comfort of their armchairs using a secure, cutting edge high-tech app for the person who performed the best.
We know what President Obama thinks. His aides have been in touch. He can’t say it publicly, not yet anyway, but he’s been watching the show, he understands what we’re trying to do.
What about you?
Up until now, The iCandidate has been regarded more as a reality show diversion. The ratings are great, certainly higher than we dared to dream when Andy Kristoff first came up with the idea just a few short months ago, but then they were pretty good for American Idol and The Bachelor. But they were hardly going to change the world.
This is different. Obama talked a lot about hope and change and it all sounded great until he got into the Oval Office and found the system was stacked against him.
The iCandidate is a blueprint to rescue a fundamentally flawed political system. It offers everyone the opportunity to vote, irrespective of whether they follow one party or another.
Everybody has their own unique, validated iVote. By registering on the NoteStream app Book Club they will be able to cast that iVote following every challenge in The iCandidate. They will also get the opportunity to guide and advise the policies and personalities of the eight finalists.
The primaries and caucuses that still select the presidential nominees are ridiculous and are no longer representative either of America or the American people.
We have lost sight of what is important in a president. In the days of Lincoln and Washington, the presidency really stood for something and the voting system made sense for the time but times have changed and the elections have not changed with it.
Does anyone seriously believe that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the two party frontrunners going into the voting season, are the best America has to offer? A bombastic billionaire self-publicist and a woman who wants to be seen as a feminist trailblazer but who aggressively defended her womanizing husband.
It is such a critical decision for a country to make; surely we should have all the facts, not just what the parties and their puppets choose to tell us.
The iCandidate has invested millions of dollars into a cutting edge hi-tech voting system – the iVote – that is completely secure. It has chosen a medium – TV and the Internet – that is populist because that is what elections should be. We see the iCandidates, warts and all, BEFORE they are in the White House running our lives.
If there are too many warts, YOU can vote them out.
If they can deliver on the big stage on The iCandidate, there is a much greater chance they will be able to rise to the challenges on the biggest stage on Earth as President of the United States.
* Although David Mason is a member of The iCandidate Advisory Board, these comments are all his own and do not reflect the views or the policies of The iCandidate Corp.
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