*For Campaign 2012, Joe participated in the “Americans Elect” presidential candidate process. Part of the criteria for being considered for the nomination was answering a series of 15 questions in a video tape format. The questions dealt with some of the major “topics of the day,” which are all still major topics of the day. [The answers could be no more than 1 min. and 30 seconds.] The following are Joe’s answers to the questions that were posed: