There is an article in the Chicago Tribune today about some college students at Claremont McKenna College who have taken the idea and popularity of fantasy sports and applied it to politics.
The idea is Fantasy Congress, where you can join a league, draft your team and earn points for the actions your team members take in real life. It is a step toward making politics interactive for all of us regular folk who wonder what the heck these politicians are thinking.
For a political novice like me, it is really interesting to browse the website, see the point leaders (most of whom I wouldn't expect) and then read about their actions. I've often found politics to be boring, aggrevating, downright foolish and something mind-numbingly stupid. All about rising to your level of incompetance, and some seem to reach that level rather quickly.
But Fantasy Congress takes out all the useless political noise, positioning and bantering that goes on, and presents me with information that I want to know. Fantasy Congress makes me more of a participate than an observer.
Talk about giving the power back to the people!
It will be interesting to see hwo this website does, especially once Congress is back in session. It is an election year, afterall, and a new crop of tech-savvy voters are about to vote for the first time.
Will Fantasy Congress bring out the voter in all of us?
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