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So You Think You Can Be President is a new reality television show where candidates compete for American votes

Presidential hopefuls must present their positions on major issues in front of a live studio audience then face hard hitting critiques from our panel of judges. Viewers at home will delight in the spectacle as candidates are challenged in ways never before seen in mainstream media.

In this week s episode, only two weeks before the election, Senator Obama and Senator McCain have their feet held to the fire over shockingly similar positions on energy and foreign policy.

Who will be this season s champion and take home the grand prize? You ll have to watch and decide for yourself, then participate in the show by casting a vote* for your favorite performer on November 4th

Some restrictions may apply. In certain areas these include, but are not limited to, faulty electronic voting systems, racist voter laws and/or voter roll purges. See your local polling place for details.
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In November, one or the other of the corporate candidates will win, and then, as always, it will be what the people do, not the politicians, that counts.

A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise and Static is a manifesto. We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, This is what democracy looks like.

Ground Noise and Static is a joint effort of Franklin Lopez of subMedia.TV and PepperSpray Productions. It is the direct result of a wonderful collaboration with many indymedia style activists and journalists who all pitched in for the common good and success of their various efforts to tell their Unconventional stories.
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