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You For President

For Presidents Day, Steve Rogers asks what you would do if YOU were president.

Just after the Presidential Election Season of 2008, I set out with a small team to ask folks for their point of view on the office of the president. There had been much he said/she said, many declarations made for what was best for the people and the people had passionately picked sides and loudly barked nay-says at each other, but I wondered, as they cast stones from glass-houses if they had considered the enormity of the task-at-hand, the sleeves-up work that the new president was going to have to do. 

I was also curious to know, despite polls that supposedly tell us about ourselves, what was most urgent to most people and finally, in asking "What would you do if you were president," I wanted to know how people wanted to be governed, by asking how they would govern.

With a new presidential election season uncoiling and as President’s Day 2011 is upon us, I was curious to hear how my neighbors would shoulder the mantle of the highest office in the free world. 

This installment of About Town asks: What would you do if you were President?

The results of my video survey work in 2008 are still available at www.GivenThePower.com.

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