Today, December 15, is the official deadline for candidates to post their answers to the 10Questions.com online presidential forum. But since we are hearing from several campaigns, including those of Sen. Barack Obama, Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Gov. Bill Richardson, that they are still hard at work on their answers, we've decided to extend the deadline by three days, to Tuesday, December 18. Candidates have until midnight EST to get their answers to us. The community will still have until December 31 to view them and vote on whether the candidates actually answer the questions.

Ron Paul's campaign, which was one of the first to agree to participate, says it is working hard to add his responses by the extended deadline. We hope to see Dr. Paul's responses on the site soon.

We realize that all the presidential campaigns are faced with enormous demands on their candidate's time. That's why we designed the 10Questions forum to make optimal use of the Internet's time-shifting and time-expanding powers. Unlike other presidential forums, 10Questions does not require a candidate to appear at a specific time and place. Nor does it limit the length or creativity of candidate answers.

To sum up, we're looking forward to all the candidates taking advantage of this opportunity to answer directly and in-depth the questions asked by the tens of thousands of people who participated in the first round of 10Questions, and we look forward to your feedback.