In the past, “people interacted with candidates through the televisions sets in their living rooms,” said Steve Grove, the head of news and politics for YouTube. The site has “flipped the dial,” he said, by letting voters send video to the candidates.

The first spotlight candidate is Mitt Romney, former Republican Governor of Massachusetts. His 65 second long video asks "What do you believe is America’s greatest challenge, and what would you do to address it?” For a full week users have the opportunity to post their input on Romney's question. Those who do, there are 37 at the time of this posting, must be approved by the campaign. But no fear, those responses that aren't approved are still available under Related Content.

So far the responses range from 20 seconds to 10 minutes reaching issues such as immigration, healthcare, education, fossil fuels and much more. In addition to the video responses over 700 text comments have been posted.
 
Eleven other candidates from both parties have agreed to participate in the YouTube spotlight over the coming weeks. Stay tuned we'll be sure to cover them all.

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