Extending Product Vision

Mike is right, I was getting carried away getting my head back into politics. Lots of interesting things going these days...

I'd like to expand on his ideas, using his topic sentences to keep reference to what started the particular thread of research.

1)"I envision us creating a website in which the political activity of politicians from the House and Senate are tracked."
Yes, but as he also specified, it's got to be pitched on a politician-by-politician basis. There are simply way to many general politics sites out there to bring much new value.
Current Top Politics sites (according to Alexa)
www.realclearpolitics.com
www.cnn.com
www.politics1.com (bare bones site, not too impressive)
www.politics.com (absurdly right-swigning)
http://www.opensecrets.org/
www.nytimes.com
...To name a few....
But, I wasn't able to find any site that follows the issues from the perspective of what your representatives are doing.

2) "By creating this service, we create an incentive for politicians to be involved on our site, answering questions and justifying positions"
The best incentive that we can give them is that we wouldn't really need them. Using some basic search algorithms, we could populate our site automatically. That is, for any current issue, we find all public quotes, rhetoric and mentions of the particular representative. Given all this material, and a way for users to make their own comments, the representative would very much want a way to discuss their actions.

3) "This will work towards our grass roots movement because it will keep the policitianca of every district more loyal to the concerns of their districts, voters, affiliations, etc."
While cerntainly not a coomplete solution, it will increase accountability.

4)"If done well, I think that our service has a sucessfull plan to foster growth and expansion along with providing any American detailed information of the political moves of their leaders." Yes, but specificity is crucial.We need to use the popularity and wealth of information of the existing giants in this spac, rather than compete against them.

Now, packaging information on a per-politician basis has many appealing corrolaries. For example, consider the idea of a "[Representative X] Digest." Concerned readers could get condensed digests of their politicians on a regular basis delivered to their email.


Also, there was the "hire me" concept that Denise was a fan of. Anyway we can build that concept into some sort of brand identity for this product?