Questions-Questions-Questions

Have you ever submitted a question for a Presidential debate?  You know, when they are advertising for the political debates, they always encourage people to email, text, facebook or twitter debate questions to them.  I imagine there are some folks who sit around and anxiously await these opportunities to submit their questions to the candidates.

I suspect that some spend hours fine-tuning just the right question in hopes that their question will be selected and used.  I recently participated in this exercise submitting three different questions for Republican candidates on stage in Detroit. 

It seemed odd to me but none of my questions made the big time.  In other words, they were not selected.  What's that about it?  I worked hard on the questions.  I made sure they were grammatically correct and spelled properly.  I asked important, topical questions.  I framed them to appear as a moderate independent or actually a moderate Republican.  I was actually taken back that not one of my three questions were asked.  I stayed within the national security discussion with my questions so it could not have been that.

I actually used my new-found social-media skills by tweeting one question, facebooking another and emailing the third.  I was really proud of that as I still have no clue what I'm doing with all that social-media stuff.  I figured that one of my questions would be a winner.  As the debate proceeded and question after question was asked, I kept thinking that my questions were significantly better-written, more profound and immensely more important than the ones that were being asked.  Why did they select their questions over mine?

I actually thought about protesting to CNN with a letter of outrage.  Just kidding!  Not giving up though.  There's one scheduled for later this week and I have already submitted five questions this time.  I figure my odds will be better submitting five.   If none are selected this week, I will still have plenty of opportunities going forward as the political season is only starting to heat up.  Just hoping this isn't like the lottery - I don't have much success playing it either.  Of course, it would help if I actually bought a ticket.