Thales

This is a great website. It might miss a few issues, but it's the most comprehensive and easy to use feature on the issues I've seen so far. Nice find.

RightinNYC

Very nice find, kudos.

Some interesting things that I didn't know until just now:

*Of all the candidates, only Gravel and Kucinich believe that gay people should be allowed to marry in all states.

*The only candidates to oppose Net Neutrality are Brownback, Giuliani, McCain, and Paul

*The only candidates to oppose a path to citizenship for illegals are Cox, Paul, Romney, and Tancredo

*The only candidates to oppose the PATRIOT act are Gravel, Kucinich, and Paul

*Same number of Republicans and Democrats oppose the Death Penalty (Paul, Brownback, and Cox v. Gravel, Kucinich, and Obama)

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Zyphlin

Three decent ones for me.

Yes, call me a geek, but net neutrality is something majorly on my mind. Opposing Net Neutrality just further puts a steak in McCain for me

I've been happy to see Romney being pretty tough on the immigration issue

The PATRIOT Act one worries me, due to how much research I've actually done to the act (at this point I think I they've read more of the damn thing then most politicians did when they voted). Abolishing the PATRIOT Act would be a colossal mistake. Getting rid of parts of it? Sure...actually, that's kind of how the acts meant to go. It has numerous built in sunsets, and is constantly being tweaked as things are no longer needed or other such issues. But I'd say about 90-95% of the Act is amazingly useful, important, and not "dangerous" and simply brings 40 year old law up to date with those amazing thing called "electronics". Cause you know....cell phones, beepers, email, computers, "Tha internetz" with all its pipes and such...just weren't around when the previous laws were made concerning communications.

rivrrat

God bloody damnit. There's not one candidate there that has the same stance on all issues that I do. Or even just all the issues I find important.

I have been leaning towards Paul, but he's anti-choice, against stem cell research, and opposes net neutrality. The only thing that might get me to vote for him is the fact that he seems to be strongly in support of very limited government ... which tells me he'd be less likely to impose bans, etc. That might be his only saving grace.

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Iriemon

The issue list don't even include a balanced budget or address the $9 trillion debt as an issue. Shows that the US debt is not even on the radar to the pass the buck generation.

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Kandahar

Welcome to politics.

Ron Paul is against federal FUNDING of stem cell research.

Good. For all your preaching about the free market I'm very surprised to hear that you support this ridiculous idea. "Net neutrality" is a solution in search of a problem. There's nothing wrong with the way the internet currently operates.

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rivrrat

Well... I don't have a problem with that then.


Interesting. That's not what I gathered when I've read about it. I gathered quite the opposite. That keeping the status quo is what net neutrality meant. Perhaps I have missed something or misunderstood then and will venture out to search for more info in order to re-evaluate.

Kandahar

"Net neutrality" basically means heavy-handed regulations against ISPs to force them to provide the same quality of service to everyone, instead of allowing them to provide better service for more money (like any other business can do).

ARealConservative

Exactly. Network Neutrailty is the opening salvo in a regulated internet.

Don't let the name fool you, it's just like the patriot act - anything but.

As for Free Trade - Ron Paul is most definitely for it. He is opposed to managed trade however.

Kandahar

You are right. He is for free trade in theory, but he's against any practical measures to implement it such as NAFTA, CAFTA, and the WTO. Which basically means that if he was president, we wouldn't see much expansion of free trade.

The best candidate on free trade issues is John McCain, hands-down. He almost always supports FTAs. On the Democratic side, Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton are probably the most likely to continue pursuing FTAs, even if they won't admit it during the primary season.