# That site that has rubrics of various US politicians' beliefs

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**Created:** [March 19, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-site-that-has-rubrics-of-various-us-politicians-beliefs/349017 "2006-03-19T18:07:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-site-that-has-rubrics-of-various-us-politicians-beliefs/349017/1 "2006-03-19T18:07:07Z")

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There’s some cool site that has a fairly comprehensive database of their survey of political beliefs filled out by most major US politicians, but I can’t find it with Google for the life of me. Can anyone help me out?

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-site-that-has-rubrics-of-various-us-politicians-beliefs/349017/2 "2006-03-19T19:32:14Z")

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Lama Pacos writes:

\> Rubric

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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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:** [March 19, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-site-that-has-rubrics-of-various-us-politicians-beliefs/349017/3 "2006-03-19T20:22:54Z")

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> [@Wendell Wagner](#):
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> You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

He only used it once. But, might the website you’re thinking of be Project VoteSmart?

> **[The Voter's Self Defense System](https://justfacts.votesmart.org)**
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> Vote Smart provides free, unbiased, in-depth information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988.

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**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-site-that-has-rubrics-of-various-us-politicians-beliefs/349017/4 "2006-03-20T00:17:42Z")

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Thanks, Captain Amazing, that’s just the one. 🙂