I plan on asking a question of undecided, independent, and low-information voters next year, in 2012, for the rest of the decade, and however long the answer is likely to be "yes" and the impact is likely to be positive.
"Remember when Bristol Palin almost won on Dancing With the Stars?"
"It was crazy; I remember that much," I'll hear. "Yeah," I'll say, "and what was really crazy about it was ...."
I wrote one diary the Sunday before Bristol Palin made the finals and one the Wednesday afterwards. This diary is the third and (I expect) last in the series. It discusses how we can use this event, now burned into public consciousness, to help fight the radical right-wing in the future.
Bristol Palin's almost winning on DWTS mattered, more so than most stories here that should matter more.
It matters because it will help us connect with voters. I'll explain how.