This election year more than ever, the Internet is playing a crucial role in helping voters become informed on each of the candidates, and candidates are using it as a method for campaigning. There are all kinds of web sites that have popped up to help the cause, and one of them that I came across recently that will be helpful to you as a voter is Glassbooth.org. If you live in the United States and you still haven’t decided who you’ll be voting for come November, check it out! It serves as a great resource for finding out about the 2008 presidential candidates and even gives you an idea of which candidate your views are most similar to.
Glassbooth makes the process pretty quick and easy, yet it’s really informative. First you’ll start out by assigning 20 points to a list of issues that you find the most important. For example, I assigned 4 points to education and 4 points to health care, two issues which are important to me. Once your points are given out, you’ll move on to some questions in which you’ll answer on a scale of strongly agree to strongly oppose. When you’re done with that portion, it will tell you how you compare to the different candidates and why.
The fact that it explains why your views line up with a particular candidate is nice. And they back it up with quotes and figures from the candidates mouths which is helpful as well. As you can see, my views are most similar to Barack Obama (84%), Mike Gravel (82%), and Hillary Clinton (80%). Before you run off to take the quiz yourself (and of course come back to let us know your results), here’s som info about Glassbooth. It’s a nonprofit organization that is “creating innovative ways to access political information. An informed and interested democracy is a powerful thing. As an organization in the public’s interest, we are very serious about our core principles,” their site says. Then they go on to list that their core principles are integrity, nonbias, nonpartisan, transparency, and insight.
Thanks to Pieter in the forum for pointing out Glassbooth to us!
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@Ashley:
FYI Flock devs just came out with version 1.0.8 as a maintenance path to crush a couple of bugs pertaining to Netscape Communicator and Apple’s operating system.
URL: http://www.flock.com/versions
P.S. Sorry, can’t vote in the U.S.
Regards,
Omar.-
Hillary Clinton………
uh oh. don’t know if i can support this site anymore since you’re a liberal
McCain 76%. I’m a conservative, but any Republican candidate who could attract Democrat voters is a destructive force. I will not vote for McCain.
It shouldn’t even be necessary for liberals to take this “quiz,” since your important issues, Ashley, are the bread-and-butter of the Democrats. They are advocates of bigger government, and support expansion of government powers into health care (a mistake), education (mistake, but wow, it’s had wonderful results so far), and the environment (mistake, but OwlGore and his merry band of thieving liars are propagandizing GlowBall Worming to the people who don’t know that environmental issues are largely a farce). It’s a joke that liberals can find so many issues like those in the screencap above to be concerned about, after blaming Bush and his minions of eroding civil liberties and freedoms, lo these many years. Your top 3 issues, if taken up by the Dem candidates, will directly result in restrictions of freedoms. But hey, why take personal responsibility for your own life when you can get the government to do it for you? Redistribution of wealth isn’t a bad thing when you aren’t the one footing the bill, huh?
@skh.pcola:
Discussing political issues is sometimes very difficult because in the heat of the discussion facts become blurry. Having said that, I firmly believe that environmental issues are not political issues. They are related to our environment and the natural factors that sustain life here on Earth.
The scientific community is very alarmed and are doing all they can to tell the political leaders of the world that were’re running out of time. You can believe them or not. That doesn’t mean the problem will go away.
Glaciers are melting at increasing rates, sea levels are rising flooding extensive coastal areas like Bangladesh, for example. Here in Panama in a place called “Costa Abajo” whole communities gather every week near the sea to pray in an effort to calm the rising seas. They don’t know what to do except pray in large groups.
Whole neighborhoods have disappeared by ferocious rising waves. I’m afraid this is just the beginning. Global warming and climate change is not a hoax. Take a look of what is going on around the planet and you will see the writing is on the wall.
Just my 2 cents on this extremely sensitive issue.
Regards,
Omar.-
I actually don’t consider myself liberal or conservative and I have never voted strictly republican or strictly democrat. In fact, I voted for Bush. There, I said it.
I’ve never been one to get into politics to be honest, and I’m not about to here either. The purpose of this article was to inform our readers about the site where they could go, if they wanted, to learn more about the candidates. We’re all entitled to our own opinions. Wouldn’t it be boring if everybody always agreed on everything?