YouTube/CNN Debate Tonight

Tonight is the YouTube/CNN debate.  If you haven't heard of it yet, the debate questions will be entirely composed by the public, submitted via YouTube.  Overall, I'm a little disappointed that there was no voting system to
allow users to decide which questions get selected for air during the
debate.  It makes this much less a citizen endeavor as CNN is still
playing a huge gate-keeping role.  The promise of
this debate is that it will showcase an intelligent array of Americans
asking hardball questions that the timid networks are afraid to ask.
My sense is that the debate will actually go one of two ways:
CNN will select a rather boring slate of questions, mirroring the
questions they would have asked anyway.  If that is the case, this will
be nothing more than a new coat of paint on and old car.  The worst
case scenario will be if CNN picks mostly stale questions but sprinkles
in some of the quirkier videos, making the American public look not
only uninformed, but freakish.

The Opportunity Agenda made a few videos of our own to submit as question.  Here's our interns, Allie, Amanda, Linda and Michael (clockwise), asking questions about opportunity, economic mobility, health care equity, immigration and restoring a sense of community and the common good.  Watch the debate tonight and cross your fingers that one of these videos will be featured: