Politics

Obama to Answer Online Questions after State of the Union

By Peter Maer

January 26, 2010 / 8:37 AM EST / CBS News

(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

The always web-centric Obama White House hopes to reach beyond the huge broadcast audience for Wednesday evening's State of the Union with what's described as "State of the Union 2.0."

It plans to seek audience feedback. Whitehouse.gov says after the president's speech, people will be able to submit their own follow up questions and vote on others on YouTube's Citizentube.

In a strategy aimed at extending speech themes, the president will answer the chosen questions in a special online event next week live from the White House.

(CBS)

Peter Maer is a CBS News White House correspondent. You can read more of his posts in Hotsheet here.