We are reinventing polling to be generative. In Bowling Green, Kentucky (with Google), an open‑ended process — What Could BG Be? — let people up‑vote/down‑vote ideas (no retweet button). Over 80 percent of ideas converged on uncommon ground that made most people happier and few unhappy. This is expanding via the Napolitan Institute toward 400+ U.S. Congressional districts — turning NIMBY/YIMBY into “MIMBY” (“maybe in my backyard, if…”).

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