At some point everyone sees an interview with a politician that gets off the hook with softball questions.

NoMoreBlather.com, has just launched to match tough questions for politicians with citizen journalists who’ll try to get answers.

Press credentials aren’t needed to ask tough questions. Anyone can post direct probing questions for specific politicians at NoMoreBlather.

The goals isn’t just to collect questions, but post replies that are obtained by citizen journalists who take the initiative to phone up their local politicians or show up at public Q&As. It’ll keep politicians on their toes and citizens informed.

“The MSM frequently avoids asking politicians tough questions, prefering instead to act as a transcription service or retransmitting smears.”

People “should start where [politicians] standard talking points leave off,” said Chris Kelly in an email.

This is a dynamic example where a crowd of people can answer questions better than any computer could. Number crunching is still the territory of calculators, but for questions that need context, the human mind is unmatchable.

At Minnesota Public Radio they created the Idea Generator, where everyone can tackle community questions, like how to keep economic opportunity high and transportation efficient. The questions are posed and anyone can submit answers, which are then voted on and hopefully catch the eye of local government.

With Mechanical Turk Amazon has turned pairing people with questions that need human answers into a business. I’ve gone to the site myself and made a whopping 75 cents by answering a few quick questions, that would be impossible for any computer to do.

The possibilities of tapping into the wisdom of the crowd to answer simple but important questions is fairly broad. Some do it as an artistic statement and other sites like Askeet or Yahoo Answers see a real potential, where people can have random but important questions answered by people just like themselves.