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Roundup: Funniest YouTube Questions for Candidates

Heather Havenstein, Computerworld

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More than 600 video questions for Democratic presidential candidates have been submitted to YouTube -- mostly on serious topics like health care, immigration, education, global warming, and other timely and important topics.

However, as CNN culls through the videos to choose questions for its July 23 debate, it's also finding that some questioners are using humor -- in many cases, quite well -- to get their points across.

One question, for example, is set to music and asks about how candidates will tackle tax rates. And Jackie and Dunlap from Murfreesboro, Tenn., fret over the attention former vice president -- and noncandidate -- Al Gore is getting from the media, and quiz John Edwards on his attractiveness in their "Red State Update."

Others use humor to pose questions on who the candidates may pardon and whether they would force the government to disclose information on UFOs.

Here's our list of the 10 funniest videos to date.

1. #534

Remy takes a musical bent to his question on what he calls his heavy tax burden these days.

2. #234

Tennessee's own Jackie and Dunlap ask the candidates to speak about the attention Al Gore is getting in the press despite his pledge not to run in 2008.

3. #52

Tony from Toronto asks for comment on a recent poll that listed some strange reasons Californians cited for voting for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

4. #393

Tim from Vermont wants to know if the candidates would support the release of government information about UFOs.

5. #372

A questioner wonders about the candidates' plans for using the presidential power to pardon criminals.

6. #396

A frog asks Sen. Hillary Clinton about her plans to clean up the environment.

7. #20

Adam from Louisiana asks Sen. Clinton about how she is using her gender as an issue in the election.

8. #307

Tim Miller offers a humorous take on the annual budgets of several different federal agencies.

9. #483

Jackie and Dunlap are back and cut to the chase with former senator John Edwards about his expensive haircuts and appearance.

10. #584

Jacob Soboroff asks: "Why do we vote on Tuesdays?"

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