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Next Tuesday—April 10th—at 7:15pm Eastern, MoveOn is using the Internet to connect presidential candidates directly to the people.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, and Joe Biden will answer questions from MoveOn.org’s 3.2 million members in the first of three unprecedented virtual town hall meetings. The topic: Iraq.

MoveOn members will gather at house parties on April 10th to hear the candidates speak via an Internet based audio broadcast. They will also be able to see a map of all the parties participating and enter comments, some of which will be displayed during the intermission.

You can sign up to attend a local house party and experience the virtual town hall with others by clicking here.

MoveOn members are asking candidates the tough questions about their Iraq plans, and we’re gathering in living rooms from coast to coast to hear the answers directly. The mass media won’t be filtering our questions or filtering the answers—-MoveOn will be connecting candidates directly to the people.

Right after the virtual town hall meeting, MoveOn will survey our members to see which candidate they believe will do the best job of leading us out of the war in Iraq. Voting will go on until midnight PST on Wednesday April 11. MoveOn will make the results of the support survey public on Thursday, April 12.

Historically, MoveOn support has generated large contributions of members’ volunteer time and money to favored candidates.

In the 2006 mid-term elections, MoveOn members contributed $27 million, made 7 million get-out-the-vote phone calls, organized 7,500 house parties, and held 6,000 in district campaign events.

If you can’t attend a house party, the event will also be broadcast, with commercial breaks, on Air America XM Satellite Radio (channel 167). It will be re-broadcast without commercial breaks on all Air America local affiliates during the following dates and times: Wednesday 4/11 from 8:00pm-10:00 p.m. ET, Saturday 4/14 from 10:00am-12:00 p.m. ET and Sunday 4/15 from 8:00am-10:00 a.m. ET.

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Filed under: Politics on April 6th, 2007