Vote iQ adds Rick Perlstein to Advisory Board

Journalist will advise new political social networking site aimed at empowering voters

GIG HARBOR, Wash., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Vote iQ, America's first major social networking site expressly designed for politics, today announced the addition of Rick Perlstein to its Advisory Board. Perlstein will provide council and strategic oversight to Vote iQ and its initiatives.  He joins other members of the political elite on Vote iQ's board, including world-renowned political consultants Frank Luntz and James Carville, and Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss.

"We are excited to have Rick become an integral part of Vote iQ's board," said Vote iQ's President and founder James Tisch. "His experience and passion for political issues are an invaluable addition as we continue to grow."

Perlstein, a historian, journalist and author, is best known for Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. Nixonland was named one of the three best books of 2008 by the editors at Amazon.com and was a New York Times notable book.

"The promise of the VoteIQ platform," Perlstein says, "is that it leverages the power of democracy to help create, well, democracy." He added that it "promises to make deliberation on public issues more transparent, more efficient, and more accountable."

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Vote iQ is the first major social networking platform expressly designed for politics. It is a groundbreaking platform that revolutionizes the relationship between voters and policy makers. It is specifically designed for the ever-changing political world connecting policymakers, voters and political causes across the United States like never before. For more information, please visit www.voteiq.com or follow us on Twitter at @VoteiQ

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