Why does BallotVox focus on local perspectives?
The national-level experts and big-picture political bloggers get plenty of attention already. We want to animate the election debate with local angles. So this means we’re interested, say, in a border story from Arizona that speaks to immigration issues; or the opinion of an Iraq-war veteran on some aspect of the war that’s critical to the stay/withdraw decision. We’d also like to get outside the US and hear how people in Nigeria or Thailand or Pakistan feel the election will affect their lives.
