# Is there a good site for comparing political candidates and their views?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 4, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-good-site-for-comparing-political-candidates-and-their-views/608384 "2012-01-04T15:35:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![FixMyIgnorance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FixMyIgnorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FixMyIgnorance)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-good-site-for-comparing-political-candidates-and-their-views/608384/1 "2012-01-04T15:35:51Z")

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I’m shocked that it’s so hard to find this.

Do you think political view comparisons are intentionally obfuscated in order to confuse people and force them to act on surface-level information?

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-good-site-for-comparing-political-candidates-and-their-views/608384/2 "2012-01-04T17:11:47Z")

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There’s On the Issues, which collects and lays out candidates’ statements on the issues.

[http://www.issues2000.org/default.htm](http://www.issues2000.org/default.htm)