There was a great post on the SDMB a few months back, in the multitude of political threads, that listed a handful of seemingly independent Election websites. These sites gave an apparently neutral view of candidates, their issues, their responses, their backgrounds, etc.
For the life of me, I cannot find that thread or post. Thus, I ask your help: Would you post a link to a site you’d recommend to me?
Sure, I have a clear perspective of the issues on the media’s mind, however, I don’t give a darn about a potential VP’s pick of underwear for her brother’s daughter’s babymama who might be pregnant with a Soviet spy’s unborn child. The media is obviously biased, and I don’t trust CNN, Fox, CBS, NBC, etc.
I prefer to choose a candidate based on their past track records–well, to be fair, I’d like to choose based on the Cabinet the incumbent would assemble, but they haven’t invented the perfect crystal ball yet–and have seen a few sites that summarize candidate’s stances on past issues.
Can y’all help me out?
Tripler
Now that the conventions are over, I can start studying up.
It’s showing congressional ratings for “Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.” If you click on “rating” things get very ugly for Republicans. Is anyone familiar with this group? (I know I should ask on a new thread.)
Thanks for the information. Is his disdain a chicken or egg? (Meaning, is he highly critical because of the treatment or is he critical of the treatment because he already didn’t like the Bushies?)
The impression I get is that it’s the treatment of soldiers and veterans that has caused him to become highly critical of the Bush administration. He also doesn’t think much of the policy decisions that took us into Iraq at the expense of Afghanistan.
(I love KO, but identifying a regular on his show as “someone who’s been highly critical of Bush” on anything is right up there with “a human who has breathed many times.”)
The Council on Foreign Relations has a Campaign 2008 page that compiles lots of information, including candidate positions on foreign relations matters.
There’s also this WBUR site that gives you the opportunity to identify stands you agree with and then reveals which candidate you agree with the most. If you don’t want to take the quiz, just hit start quiz and you’ll see an “Election Issues” link among the links directly under the banner. It still lists the positions of all of the Democratic and Republican candidates who were originally vying for the nominations. This site was put together a while back. I think it would be interesting to compare the quoted statements to statements being made by the candidates today.