Comments on: Doing my homework

Question: Doing my homework

anonymous78 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:20:04 -0800

I could offer excuses, but I won't. I'm unacceptably uninformed about the presidential hopefuls. Are there any good sites/articles offering summaries, breakdowns and/or analyses of the candidates' views/opinions on key issues? I'm primarily, but not exclusively, interested in the Democratic candidates.

By: jtron

jtron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:21:40 -0800

On The Issues

By: ericb

ericb — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:25:32 -0800

MSNBC's Candidates and Issues Matrix.

By: ericb

ericb — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:32:26 -0800

Also -- check out ABCNews/USAToday's Candidate Match Game, Glassbooth's Presidential Candidate Quiz and Gannett News Service's Candidates’ Stands on Issues.

By: ericb

ericb — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:35:10 -0800

And also CNN's Election Center 2008 Issues.

By: evilelvis

evilelvis — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:31:33 -0800

Please keep an open mind about Republicans as well, specifically Ron Paul. Do your own research (which you asked) but I throw that out there because despite the party, he is most definitely not what you are thinking about when you think of a Republican. Not an endorsement, just a suggestion.

By: Freedomboy

Freedomboy — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:35:11 -0800

DailyKos.com

By: saturnine

saturnine — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:43:45 -0800

This comparison chart helped me decide that Obama is the man for me. Or he would be if I had any voting ability at all in this election. Covers all candidates.

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:28:56 -0800

I couldn't find anything that resembled a debate scorecard for a past republican debate, so I made one myself, and did some quote-mining and word frequency analysis.

I should do this again for the more recent debates.

and fix the darn layout...

By: gnash

gnash — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:45:23 -0800

www.glassbooth.org for the attention-span challenged.

By: reenum

reenum — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:45:34 -0800

You might like Glassbooth. They have a quiz you can take that will determine the best candidate to vote for based on the issues you find important.

Unfortunately for me, my ideal candidate is Dennis Kucinich.

By: evilelvis

evilelvis — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:51:40 -0800

I was driving home thinking about this question some more and I wanted to say, while these grids are helpful, please please do more than just glance at a flash based grid that shows a bunch of red xs and green checkmarks. Take some time to really investigate the candidates.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:14:41 -0800

The Democrats are debating Thursday night at 8 Eastern on CNN. You might want to tune in just to get a sense of how they come across on TV.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:49:01 -0800

Bah. I tried On The Issues (above) and was told I "might consider voting for Hillary Clinton if [I] particularly like his character and background."

By: hjo3

hjo3 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:01:59 -0800

Wikipedia can be helpful.

Positions for:

Ron Paul
Barack Obama
Mitt Romney
Rudy Giuliani
Hillary Clinton
John Edwards

etc. etc.